On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 21:17:26 +0200 Sebastian Skar <sebastianskar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > we can see that the pointers are shallow copied (not 'copy constructed'...), > so basically even across fork the same file position is relevant for > both father and child. exactly. f_pos is stored in a struct file which is instantiated in open (sys_open()->filp_open()->dentry_open()). forking, cloning, duping, etc only create references to it and don't effectively copy it, hence the sharing. Florin -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
