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Alain Knaff authored
This patch fixes a race condition in lseek. While it is expected that unpredictable behaviour may result while repositioning the offset of a file descriptor concurrently with reading/writing to the same file descriptor, this should not happen when merely *reading* the file descriptor's offset. Unfortunately, the only portable way in Unix to read a file descriptor's offset is lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_CUR); however executing this concurrently with read/write may mess up the position. [with fixes from akpm] Signed-off-by:
Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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