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DateFri, 6 Feb 2004 17:09:17 -0300
FromWerner Almesberger <>
SubjectRe: VFS locking: f_pos thread-safe ?
Joel Becker wrote:
> 	This reads:  "all of the specified effects of the other call,
> or none of them."
[...]
> 	Of course, that doesn't change the possible race updating
> f_pos at the end of each thread's call.

Hmm, "all, but the f_pos read-modify-write" sounds more like how
an insurance company would define "all" :-)

What's puzzling here is that the standard would introduce such an
important concept in the discussion of threads.

- Werner

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