Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 Mar 2007 00:48:53 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: f_owner.lock and file->pos updates |
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On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 11:17:36 -0800 "Michael K. Edwards" <medwards.linux@gmail.com> wrote:
> Suppose I want to create an atomic llseek+writev operation. Is this > more or less sufficient:
The right way IMHO would be to do the work that was done for pread/pwrite and implement preadv/pwritev. The moment you want to do atomic things with the file->f_pos instead of doing it with a local passed pos value it gets ugly.. why do you need to do it with f_pos ?
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