Re: VFS locking: f_pos thread-safe ?

[Werner Almesberger]

Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
> Well... it's the sort of problem that's very Schrodenger unless you have
> another thread/process observing.

In a way :-) What I meant was that the section on read() is worded
carefully to avoid making such assurances, but then we find such a
broad statement at the end of a section discussing specifically
threads (and not even concurrency in general, and after pointing
out that threads are optional).

- Werner

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