Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Jun 2007 01:22:34 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jiri Kosina <> | Subject | Re: SMP read() stopping at memory page boundaries |
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On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > It will occur if you are reading as someone else changes the file size. > > Use file locking, it exists for a reason ;) > Annoying extra overhead. Especially with NFS, when nowadays you can't > even use flock() to create local locks..
It's not only "nowadays", it has been like that for quite a some time.
On the other hand you can use fcntl(F_SETLK) though, which works even through NFS (v3).
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