On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Timo Sirainen wrote: > > It will occur if you are reading as someone else changes the file size. > > Use file locking, it exists for a reason ;) > Annoying extra overhead. Especially with NFS, when nowadays you can't > even use flock() to create local locks..
It's not only "nowadays", it has been like that for quite a some time. On the other hand you can use fcntl(F_SETLK) though, which works even through NFS (v3). -- Jiri Kosina - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/