From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265772AbUBFTLl (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2004 14:11:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265763AbUBFTLL (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2004 14:11:11 -0500 Received: from disk.smurf.noris.de ([192.109.102.53]:55980 "EHLO server.smurf.noris.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265772AbUBFTK6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2004 14:10:58 -0500 From: "Matthias Urlichs" Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 19:47:51 +0100 To: Stephen Hemminger Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: VFS locking: f_pos thread-safe ? Message-ID: <20040206184751.GC5581@kiste> References: <402359E1.6000007@ntlworld.com> <20040206011630.42ed5de1.akpm@osdl.org> <40235DCC.2060606@ntlworld.com> <20040206013523.394d89f1.akpm@osdl.org> <20040206101941.4cd9c882.shemminger@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040206101941.4cd9c882.shemminger@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, Stephen Hemminger: > > Ever hear of pread/pwrite? Sure I have, but the general idea had been to leave the work entirely to the file system... -- Matthias Urlichs | noris network AG | http://smurf.noris.de/