Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1998-49,: Re: Concurrent read/writes on the same file

# Re: Concurrent read/writes on the same file

Chris Wedgwood (cw@ix.net.nz)
Wed, 9 Dec 1998 16:55:30 +1300

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On Tue, Dec 08, 1998 at 12:26:53PM +0000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:

> [...] Reads are not locked.

What about one reader and one writer -- here I assume the read is
locked, or do we just get trashed data? (Assuming we do, its still
OK, it really up to an application to not read/write to a file at the
same time and expect consistency).

-cw

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