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Re: When acl() returns -1
On Jun 27 12:28, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> Does Linux have a separate locking mechanism for the metadata itself? I
> mean, there's got to be some way of avoiding races in changing the
> metadata... What's the behavior of a metadata reader in that case?
> But maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree here.
Yes. The metadata is always read and written atomically.
Corinna
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