On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 04:14:06PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote: > Also, can this problem affect programs doing concurrent reads/writes > using pread/pwrite (or the AIO equivalents)? pread/pwrite specify an explicit offset and do not change the file offset, so there's no way they can be affected. See the manpage. -- Intel are signing my paycheques ... these opinions are still mine "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html