Re: FIBMAP ioctl restrictions: why?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 10 Nov 1999 19:56:43 +0000 (GMT)


> If you use it as a hint there's no big deal if the information is
> occasionally wrong due to a race. Are there any real race conditions
> with FIBMAP that cause real problems?

You audit the code and tell me. Certainly doing a fibmap of rand() breaks

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