Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 4 Mar 2014 21:11:02 +0100 | Subject | Re: Update of file offset on write() etc. is non-atomic with I/O | From | Cedric Blancher <> |
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On 4 March 2014 00:39, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote: > 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...
I've forwarded your request to the Austin Group (who manage the POSIX stuff).
Ced -- Cedric Blancher <cedric.blancher@gmail.com> Institute Pasteur
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