Hi, The Linux manual page for write(2) says:
The adjustment of the file offset and the write operation are performed as an atomic step. This is apparently an extension to POSIX, which says This volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 does not specify behavior of concurrent writes to a file from multiple processes. Applications should use some form of concurrency control. The following fragment of code int fd; fd = open("exemple", O_CREAT | O_WRONLY | O_TRUNC, 0666); fork(); write(fd, "Ouille", 6); close(fd); produces "OuilleOuille", as expected, on ext4 on two machines running Linux 3.2 AMD64. However, over XFS on an old Pentium III at 500 MHz running 2.6.32, it produces just "Ouille" roughly once in three times. Sorry for not being able to give more test cases, but I cannot easily change either the filesystem or the kernel on the Pentium server. -- Juliusz Chroboczek P.S. I'll appreciate being copied with any replies. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/