Re: sys_write() racy for multi-threaded append?

[Alan Cox]

> Surely that's racy when two threads write to the same fd and the first
> vfs_write call blocks or is preempted.  Or does fget_light take some
> per-file lock that I'm not seeing?

I think you are making assumptions about file position behaviour that are
simply not guaranteed in the standards document.
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