From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Dan Bonachea <bonachead@comcast.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: pthread-safety bug in write(2) on Linux 2.6.x
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 15:33:49 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <443DE2BD.1080103@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060412214613.404cf49f.akpm@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton wrote:
> OK, there _might_ be a real-world case: threads appending logging
> information to a flat file. Trivially workable-around with a userspace
> lock, or by switching to stdio (same thing).
>
> Yes, really we should fix it. But it's not worth adding more overhead to
> do so. So the fix would involve widespread (but simple) change, to draw
> that f_pos update inside i_mutex.
Didn't Linus explicitly made the decision not to add synchronisation for
writes with the same file?
http://groups.google.com/group/fa.linux.kernel/msg/ef66c762e737bab7?hl=en&
Is the closest I could find, but I'm sure he said something similar,
specifically about write(2) vs write(2).
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-13 7:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-13 1:45 Dan Bonachea
2006-04-13 2:10 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-04-13 4:46 ` Andrew Morton
2006-04-13 5:33 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2006-04-13 15:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-13 15:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-14 10:20 ` Nikita Danilov
2006-04-13 21:50 ` Alan Cox
2006-04-13 22:06 ` Dan Bonachea
2006-04-13 23:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-13 23:11 ` Alan Cox
2006-04-13 23:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-13 22:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-13 23:05 ` Alan Cox
2006-04-13 23:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-13 23:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-13 9:18 ` Dan Bonachea
2006-04-13 9:56 ` Andrew Morton
2006-04-13 10:28 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-04-13 14:14 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-12-19 22:45 ` Jens Moser
[not found] <60Z8f-4QA-25@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <611Wl-u5-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <616k2-6Xz-27@gated-at.bofh.it>
2006-04-14 9:14 ` Kai Henningsen
2006-04-27 9:06 Samuel Thibault
2006-04-27 15:23 ` Linus Torvalds
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