what is the relation between atomic operations and memory alignment ? I read from UTLK that "an unaligned memory access is not atomic" please explain me , I am not able to get the relationship between memory alignment and atomicity of the operation. _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies