Re: PROBLEM: pthread-safety bug in write(2) on Linux 2.6.x

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>
> I don't know enough about the kernel implementation to comment on your proposed
> fixes.
>
> However, I should clarify that this problem definitely affects more than just
> "silly testcases", and the fact that a program generates non-deterministically
> ordered output does not necessarily make it erroneous, invalid or unuseful.
>
For example syslogd (in the rare event that it does not use stdio). Or any 
kind of logfile daemon that just dumps incoming events to a file that needs 
user analysis afterwards anyway.


Jan Engelhardt
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