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From: David Wragg <dpw@doc.ic.ac.uk>
To: tytso@mit.edu
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What protects f_pos?
Date: 12 Nov 2000 01:56:39 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <y7raeb69cmg.fsf@sytry.doc.ic.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <y7r8zqzqt71.fsf@sytry.doc.ic.ac.uk> <200011112354.eABNs0005918@trampoline.thunk.org>
In-Reply-To: tytso@mit.edu's message of "Sat, 11 Nov 2000 18:54:00 -0500"

tytso@mit.edu writes:
> This looks like it's a bug to me....  although if you have multiple
> threads hitting a file descriptor at the same time, you're pretty much
> asking for trouble.

Yes, I haven't been able to come up with an example that might trigger
this that wasn't dubious to begin with.  I'll raise this again at a
convenient time during 2.5.

David

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  reply	other threads:[~2000-11-12  1:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-11-04 22:16 What protects f_pos? David Wragg
2000-11-11 23:54 ` tytso
2000-11-12  1:56   ` David Wragg [this message]
2000-11-12 22:27     ` David Schwartz
2000-11-13 15:22       ` David Wragg
2000-11-13 15:44         ` Richard B. Johnson

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