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Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:09:36 -0500
From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
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To: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
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On 8/26/05, Robert Love <rml@novell.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 15:39 -0400, Robert Love wrote:
> 
> > > This is racy - 2 threads can try to do this simultaneously.
> >
> > Fixed.  Thanks.
> 
> Actually, doesn't sysfs and/or the vfs layer serialize the two
> simultaneous writes?
> 

Not between 2 separate processes (or, rather, separate file handles)
as far as I can see...

-- 
Dmitry