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From: Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@pps.jussieu.fr>
To: Jochen Striepe <jochen@tolot.escape.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Write is not atomic?
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 08:21:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7ia9vn3pjk.fsf@lanthane.pps.jussieu.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121015234006.GK2842@pompeji.miese-zwerge.org> (Jochen Striepe's message of "Tue, 16 Oct 2012 01:40:06 +0200")

> This seems out of context.

>       If the file was open(2)ed with O_APPEND, the file offset is first
>       set to the end of the file before writing.  The adjustment of the
>       file offset and the write operation are performed as an atomic
>       step.

> Sounds different, doesn't it?

Yes, it does -- thanks for the clarification.  (And thanks to Dave for
the interesting tests.)

Sorry for the confusion,

-- Juliusz

      reply	other threads:[~2012-10-16  6:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-15 21:36 Juliusz Chroboczek
2012-10-15 22:21 ` Max Filippov
2012-10-15 23:36   ` Juliusz Chroboczek
2012-10-15 23:13 ` Dave Chinner
2012-10-15 23:24   ` Philippe Troin
2012-10-15 23:42     ` Max Filippov
2012-10-15 23:40 ` Jochen Striepe
2012-10-16  6:21   ` Juliusz Chroboczek [this message]

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