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To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: read() and pread() syscalls
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From: Ville-Pertti Keinonen <will@iki.fi>
Date: 13 Apr 1999 10:39:33 +0300
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thorpej@nas.nasa.gov (Jason Thorpe) writes:

> Geez, how did this get implemented in FreeBSD?!  It's certainly not that
> complicated.

I don't have a NetBSD machine around, but it might apply to NetBSD, as
well, unless NetBSD keeps the vnode exclusively locked for the entire
duration of a VOP_READ, even if it blocks.


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