On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 01:41:10PM +0900, Hisashi Hifumi wrote: > Hi, > > Following patch removes i_mutex from generic_file_llseek. > I think the reason of protecting lseek with i_mutex is just > touching i_size (and f_pos) atomically. NAK. There's also a lot of fun with directories - readdir() vs. llseek(). -- 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
