Re: What protects f_pos?

From: David Wragg (dpw@doc.ic.ac.uk)
Date: Sat Nov 11 2000 - 20:56:39 EST


tytso@mit.edu writes:
> This looks like it's a bug to me.... although if you have multiple
> threads hitting a file descriptor at the same time, you're pretty much
> asking for trouble.

Yes, I haven't been able to come up with an example that might trigger
this that wasn't dubious to begin with. I'll raise this again at a
convenient time during 2.5.

David

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