On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 10:56:40PM +0000, David Holland wrote: > > > > I think write() only needs to lock the the file enough to ensure that > > the file offset is correct. > > No, since in general the file is also being extended (certainly in > this case it is) it also has to lock the file size, and that's going > to deny stat() until it's done.
A stat request during a write can safely return the old size.
David
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