Re: coda lock-up in 2.3.29

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, Manfred Spraul wrote:

>for(;;){
>       read(fd,&data,sizeof(data));
>       if(EOF)
>               break;
>       process_data(&data);
>}      
>
>Do you know if we have to ensure that no record is returned twice, no
>record is missed? I just checked the POSIX standard, but I found no clear
>answer. Neither 2.2.13 nor 2.3.29 enforce that.

I think that's ok, if you want to not miss data the file locking should be
used.

Andrea