>>>>> " " == Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> writes:
> So I'd prefer to do it in two stages - shift BKL into
> ->llseek() and then see where it can be dropped/replaced with
> ->i_sem.
Seconded. There are several filesystems out there for which i_sem does
nothing to protect inode->i_size.
Cheers,
Trond
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