From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265461AbUBFNuY (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2004 08:50:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265468AbUBFNuX (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2004 08:50:23 -0500 Received: from almesberger.net ([63.105.73.238]:14602 "EHLO host.almesberger.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265461AbUBFNuS (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2004 08:50:18 -0500 Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 10:50:09 -0300 From: Werner Almesberger To: Andrew Morton Cc: Matt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: VFS locking: f_pos thread-safe ? Message-ID: <20040206105008.B18820@almesberger.net> References: <402359E1.6000007@ntlworld.com> <20040206011630.42ed5de1.akpm@osdl.org> <40235DCC.2060606@ntlworld.com> <20040206013523.394d89f1.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040206013523.394d89f1.akpm@osdl.org>; from akpm@osdl.org on Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 01:35:23AM -0800 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton wrote: > Not unless we can think of a way in which it actually matters, thanks. What I'm struggling with when reading that POSIX draft is to understand whether CLONE_FILES is appropriate or not for pthread_create. If this is unspecified, the f_pos issue becomes largely academic, although one might argue that read() should behave either one way or the other. And no, luckily, I don't have a real-life application for this either :-) - Werner -- _________________________________________________________________________ / Werner Almesberger, Buenos Aires, Argentina wa@almesberger.net / /_http://www.almesberger.net/____________________________________________/