>>>>> "FB" == Filipe Brandenburger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
FB> What about pread and pwrite, for reading and writing to seekable files
FB> in multiple threads? pread and pwrite get as a parameter a offset that
FB> they use to seek the file before reading or writing, but doing it
FB> atomically, so that many threads can use them concurrently, without
FB> the risk that another thread will re-seek the file between a seek and
FB> a read/write operation.
we can define the read/write vtable entries to allow those
params. normal read/writes would not set them and the p versions
would.
uri
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