Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Do you know of a case where we actually have multiple tasks accessing > a file simultaneously? I don't have anything at hand but multithread/process server accepting on the same socket comes to mind. I don't think it would be a very rare thing. If you confine the scope to character devices or sysfs, it could be quite rare tho. > I just instrumented up my patch an so far the only case I have found > are multiple processes closing the same file. Some weird part of > bash forking extra processes. Hmmm... Thanks. -- tejun -- 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