Re: Locks used in the FAT file system are non-atomic and in fact,

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Thu, 26 Aug 1999 12:55:14 -0700 (PDT)

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On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Jeff Merkey wrote:
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> They only break if we cascade them, that is, use a lock hiearchy with.

No, they will break even without a hierarchy, you probably just never saw
the breakage because it becomes harder to trigger.

Linus

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