On 11 Apr, Andrew McNabb wrote:
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| As others have pointed out, a read could be interrupted at any point, so
| atomicity is not guaranteed. However, if you're opening a single file, it
+--->8
But while the read may be interrupted, the page containing the
information to be read wouldn't be changed --- that information is a
frozen snapshot, although possibly an out of date snapshot. But since
the latter cannot be fixed anyway, having the information presented be
consistent is a worthy goal.
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