Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 5 Sep 1999 18:30:34 +0100 | From | Steve Dodd <> | Subject | Re: Race conditions in file creation in 2.3. |
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On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 02:53:08PM +0200, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> This is a known problem since ~2.3.7. [neither O_APPEND, nor i_size nor > f_pos are synchronized] > > Unfortunately, it seems difficult to fix it properly: [snip]
If anyone more knowledgeable than me (which doesn't narrow it down much <g>) decides to delve into this, I think there's also an issue with updating writable mmap()d files, probably with setting mtime and inode dirtying as well.
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