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Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 01:35:23 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Matt <dirtbird@ntlworld.com>
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Subject: Re: VFS locking: f_pos thread-safe ?
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Matt <dirtbird@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
>  >But is there any application in which two threads simultaneously perform
>  >read() against the same fd which is not already buggy?
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>  touché :) but still we should do what we can.. want me to make a patch?

Not unless we can think of a way in which it actually matters, thanks.