Re: [RESEND] [PATCH] VFS: make file->f_pos access atomic on 32bit arch

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On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 01:48:10PM +0900, Hisashi Hifumi wrote:
> Simultaneous access by two or more writer can corrupt file content,
> so this case needs some locks(flock or fcntl) to preserve synchronization
> of file content. This is responsibility of user-space application.
> But file->f_pos race issue can occur even if multiple threads just read 
> simultaneously. I think this is not responsibility of user-space application. 
> To avoid this currently, an application needs some locks to protect file offset
> even if it just read a file. So I think f_pos race should be fixed.

Why is this application not using pread() / pwrite() to use thread-local
file pointers?

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