Re: Linux kernel file offset pointer races

[viro]

On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 02:38:12PM +0200, Amon Ott wrote:
> Would it not be useful to have per-process or per-thread offsets? Do 
> parallel processes really need to share the offset?
> 
> E.g., the struct file could (optionally) be copied on fork with 
> copy-on-write to avoid extra memory consumption.

(cat a; cat b) > /tmp/foo
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