Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.10-rc2-mm2-V0.7.30-2

[Chris Friesen]

Ingo Molnar wrote:

> actually, the main problem with fifos was they were _not_ atomic even in
> read/write (i myself fully expected them to be that, but they arent). 
> That's the bug/misfeature that i fixed in the latest kernels.

Whoa.  pipes (ie from the pipe() call) don't read/write atomicly? Even if you 
write less than a page?

When was this fixed?

Chris
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