On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 03:26:31PM +0100, Matej Kosik wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to ask, whether there is some intelligent way how to > synchronize processes over the file-system state. > > E.g., if one process creates|modifies|deletes some file, > how can I learn *when* that effect hits all cores? > (not just the one where I executed those operations) I'd suggest asking this on a kernel specific list if you're having issues, but I would EXPECT the answer to be "immediately". This is the nature of the typical "race condition". For example, you have one thread that does "If exists $FILE; then read $FILE". And in between the calls to "exists $FILE" and "read $FILE" a separate thread deletes the file and replaces it with its own.
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