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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Subject: Re: [RESEND] [PATCH] VFS: make file->f_pos access atomic on 32bit arch
Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008 - 10:29 am

Pavel Machek wrote:

Well, apparently Posix breaks this, and we're supposed to let pwrite() 
write anywhere in an O_APPEND file.  So any security-related argument 
goes out the window.

    J
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Re: [RESEND] [PATCH] VFS: make file->f_pos access atomic o ..., Hisashi Hifumi, (Tue Oct 7, 3:11 am)
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Re: [RESEND] [PATCH] VFS: make file->f_pos access atomic o ..., Nick Piggin, (Tue Oct 7, 9:27 am)
Re: [RESEND] [PATCH] VFS: make file->f_pos access atomic o ..., Andrew Morton, (Tue Oct 7, 10:50 am)
Re: [RESEND] [PATCH] VFS: make file->f_pos access atomic o ..., Matthew Wilcox, (Tue Oct 7, 11:00 am)
Re: [RESEND] [PATCH] VFS: make file->f_pos access atomic o ..., Peter Zijlstra, (Tue Oct 7, 11:59 am)
Re: [RESEND] [PATCH] VFS: make file->f_pos access atomic o ..., Nick Piggin, (Tue Oct 7, 5:40 pm)
Re: [RESEND] [PATCH] VFS: make file->f_pos access atomic o ..., Nick Piggin, (Tue Oct 7, 7:35 pm)
Re: [RESEND] [PATCH] VFS: make file->f_pos access atomic o ..., Matthew Wilcox, (Tue Oct 7, 7:52 pm)
Re: [RESEND] [PATCH] VFS: make file->f_pos access atomic o ..., Hisashi Hifumi, (Tue Oct 7, 9:48 pm)
Re: [RESEND] [PATCH] VFS: make file->f_pos access atomic o ..., Nick Piggin, (Tue Oct 7, 10:10 pm)
Re: [RESEND] [PATCH] VFS: make file->f_pos access atomic o ..., Matthew Wilcox, (Tue Oct 7, 10:16 pm)
Re: [RESEND] [PATCH] VFS: make file->f_pos access atomic o ..., Andrew Morton, (Tue Oct 7, 11:28 pm)
Re: [RESEND] [PATCH] VFS: make file->f_pos access atomic o ..., Peter Zijlstra, (Tue Oct 7, 11:51 pm)
Re: [RESEND] [PATCH] VFS: make file->f_pos access atomic o ..., Eric Dumazet, (Wed Oct 8, 1:32 am)
Re: [RESEND] [PATCH] VFS: make file->f_pos access atomic o ..., Nick Piggin, (Wed Oct 8, 1:48 am)
Re: [RESEND] [PATCH] VFS: make file->f_pos access atomic o ..., Peter Zijlstra, (Wed Oct 8, 2:17 am)
Re: [RESEND] [PATCH] VFS: make file->f_pos access atomic o ..., Pavel Machek, (Thu Oct 9, 5:16 am)
Re: [RESEND] [PATCH] VFS: make file->f_pos access atomic o ..., Pavel Machek, (Thu Oct 9, 5:23 am)
Re: [RESEND] [PATCH] VFS: make file->f_pos access atomic o ..., Valdis.Kletnieks, (Thu Oct 9, 5:49 am)
Re: [RESEND] [PATCH] VFS: make file->f_pos access atomic o ..., Matthew Wilcox, (Thu Oct 9, 6:01 am)
Re: [RESEND] [PATCH] VFS: make file->f_pos access atomic o ..., Miklos Szeredi, (Thu Oct 9, 6:38 am)
Re: [RESEND] [PATCH] VFS: make file->f_pos access atomic o ..., Linus Torvalds, (Thu Oct 9, 7:58 am)
Re: [RESEND] [PATCH] VFS: make file->f_pos access atomic o ..., Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Thu Oct 9, 10:29 am)
Re: [RESEND] [PATCH] VFS: make file->f_pos access atomic o ..., dcg, (Thu Oct 9, 2:51 pm)
Re: [RESEND] [PATCH] VFS: make file->f_pos access atomic o ..., Nick Piggin, (Thu Oct 9, 7:25 pm)