Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Apr 2006 16:14:36 +0200 (MEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: PROBLEM: pthread-safety bug in write(2) on Linux 2.6.x |
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> > I don't know enough about the kernel implementation to comment on your proposed > fixes. > > However, I should clarify that this problem definitely affects more than just > "silly testcases", and the fact that a program generates non-deterministically > ordered output does not necessarily make it erroneous, invalid or unuseful. > For example syslogd (in the rare event that it does not use stdio). Or any kind of logfile daemon that just dumps incoming events to a file that needs user analysis afterwards anyway.
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