Re: VFS locking: f_pos thread-safe ?

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> POSIX says on <http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/functions/ 
> read.html>:
> 
> [...]
> DESCRIPTION
> 
> The read() function shall attempt to read nbyte bytes from the file
> associated with the open file descriptor, fildes, into the buffer pointed
> to by buf. The behavior of multiple concurrent reads on the same pipe,
> FIFO, or terminal device is unspecified.

...which implies that concurrent reads on regular files are okay :-P.

				Pavel

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