On 9/29/05, Florin Malita <fmalita@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 21:26:56 +0200 > Sebastian Skar <sebastianskar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I know the file position is located in the file struct. > > I know that during normal fork, copy_process copies these > > structures and doesn't share them between father and son > > (unless CLONE_FILES is used, like in threads). > > That's not quite right: copy_process() copies the files_struct structure > which contains _pointers_ to the file objects not the file structures > themselves. Hence the file structures (including f_pos) are indeed > shared. > hmm... what's the user-perspective difference between forking and threading, regarding open files, then ? thanks ! -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
