On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 04:14:06PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
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> Also, can this problem affect programs doing concurrent reads/writes
> using pread/pwrite (or the AIO equivalents)?

pread/pwrite specify an explicit offset and do not change the file
offset, so there's no way they can be affected.  See the manpage.

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