Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [8/18] BKL-removal: Remove BKL from remote_llseek | From | Trond Myklebust <> | Date | Sun, 27 Jan 2008 23:13:09 -0500 |
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On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 03:58 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > The problem is that it's not a race in who gets to do its thing first, but a > parallel reader can actually see a corrupted value from the two independent > words on 32bit (e.g. during a 4GB). And this could actually completely corrupt > f_pos when it happens with two racing relative seeks or read/write()s > > I would consider that a bug.
I disagree. The corruption occurs because this isn't a situation that is allowed by either POSIX or SUSv2/v3. Exactly what spec are you referring to here?
Trond
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