Re: Lockless file reading

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 15:42, Martin Konold wrote:
> > The question is what can happen if I read() a file that's being
> > simultaneously updated by a write() in another process?
> 
> The behaviour is undefined.

So it's not such a good idea then? Hmh.. That'd solve a lot of problems
for me.
 
> > 123 over XXX, is it possible that read() returns 1X3 in some conditions?
> 
> Yes. The actual order stuff is written to the disk is not guaranteed.

It doesn't matter when it's actually written to disk, if it's only seen
by read().


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