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SubjectRe: Lockless file reading
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Martin Konold wrote:

> Am Wednesday 27 August 2003 02:37 pm schrieb Timo Sirainen:
>
> Hi,
>
> > The question is what can happen if I read() a file that's being
> > simultaneously updated by a write() in another process?
>
> The behaviour is undefined.
>
> > 123 over XXX, is it possible that read() returns 1X3 in some conditions?
>
> Yes. The actual order stuff is written to the disk is not guaranteed.

What has the disk block write order got to do with it? It's not as
though write() would be cached but read() see the raw disk.

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Matthias Andree
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