Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 3 Mar 2014 23:39:02 +0000 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: Update of file offset on write() etc. is non-atomic with I/O |
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On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 03:23:55PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> This just uses a "flags" field, and we currently only have two bits > that we use: FDPUT_FPUT and FDPUT_POS_UNLOCK. The first patch knows > that "fget_light()" writes 0/1 for that, which is the same as the > FDPUT_FPUT bit. I didn't bother to comment on it or clean it up, since > the second patch just removes that whole fget_light() mess. > > Comments?
do_sendfile() is also there and this one is even more unpleasant ;-/ We probably can ignore that one (until POSIX learns of its existence), thouhg...
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