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From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 02:31:50PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:

    If you need to depend upon a consistent snapshot of what some
    other thread writes into a file, you must have some locking
    protocol to use to synchronize with that other thread.

Appends of small-writes (for whatever reason) seems to be atomic,
AFAIK nobody gets corrupt apache logs for example.



  --cw
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