On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Brian Utterback wrote:
Hence my comment about this always being a possibility. But this is a
common technique that is perfectly safe in any other situation.
Define safe. ;)
The application is making an assumption about the details of how the
system buffers, based on which it "deduces" (it thinks, but really it's
guessing, badly) the future behaviour of the writer.
How can that be safe?
regards,
--
Paul Jakma,
Network Approachability, KISS. Sun Microsystems, Dublin, Ireland.
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/quagga tel: EMEA x19190 / +353 1 819 9190
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