Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 10 Jan 1999 22:33:21 GMT | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Subject | Re: MM deadlock [was: Re: arca-vm-8...] |
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Hi,
On Sun, 10 Jan 1999 14:56:18 +0300, Savochkin Andrey Vladimirovich <saw@msu.ru> said:
> Well, doesn't semaphore recursion mean that the write atomicity > is no more guaranteed by inode's i_sem semaphore?
Yes. That's OK from one point of view --- there's nothing in the specs which requires us to make writes atomic. The question is whether any filesystems rely on it internally in their implementation.
--Stephen
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