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SubjectRe: [PATCH] VFS: lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_CUR) race condition
Andrew Morton wrote:
[...]
> OK, I think that a concurrent lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_CUR) is a sufficiently
> sane operation that this is worth doing. As you point out, there is no
> other way of userspace doing what is effectively a read-only operation
> - userspace would be entitled to wonder "ytf did the kernel rewrite the
> file offset for that?".
>
>
> Do the below additions look OK?

Yes, these additions look ok to me. Thanks for your quick and easy reply.

> From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
>
> - fix coding-style
> - fix default_llseek() as well

Wow, that one was missing an unlock_kernel()... I'm wondering why this
hadn't let to some major SNAFU...

> - add comments

Thanks,

Alain


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