pipes and atomic writes
Dave Mason
mason at utcsrgv.UUCP
Sat Dec 17 01:20:09 AEST 1983
> According to pipe(2) 'writes with count <4097 are atomic..'...
What happens if they cross a page boundary and the new page is not currently
resident on 4.2? Will it still be atomic? Seems difficult to me unless they
specifically check & force pages resident before starting the copy.
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