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Subject: Re: What protects f_pos?
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tytso@mit.edu writes:
> This looks like it's a bug to me....  although if you have multiple
> threads hitting a file descriptor at the same time, you're pretty much
> asking for trouble.

Yes, I haven't been able to come up with an example that might trigger
this that wasn't dubious to begin with.  I'll raise this again at a
convenient time during 2.5.

David

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