Re: Update of file offset on write() etc. is non-atomic with I/O

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> It can - compat read/write/read/writev are also there these days.

There is no "compat_read/write()" - or I would have noticed it when
grepping. Regular read/write is fine for the compat case.

It's only readv/writev that have compat versions, because the vectors
need to be converted,

                 Linus
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