> Why not? Kernel syscalls are traditionally atomic, and Lennard seems > to have found sentence in POSIX that says so. Almost no call is atomic or has atomicity guarantees. There are specific rules for certain disk access and pipe queueing but almost nothing else. The same is as true (often more true) for all Unix systems Alan -- 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