linux-kernel - Re: file offset corruption on 32-bit machines?

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Message-ID: <20080416135711.GZ7385@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Date:	Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:57:11 -0400
From:	lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)
To:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	Bodo Eggert <7eggert@....de>,
	Diego Calleja <diegocg@...il.com>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
	Meelis Roos <mroos@...ux.ee>,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: file offset corruption on 32-bit machines?

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 10:15:23AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Why not? Kernel syscalls are traditionally atomic, and Lennard seems
> to have found sentence in POSIX that says so.

Well it didn't say atomic, but it did say "thread safe" which I suppose
comes down to about the same thing.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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