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[Xen-devel] concurrent writes to xenbus device

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Subject: [Xen-devel] concurrent writes to xenbus device
From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 14:09:55 +0100
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Is it supposed to be possible to write to the same struct file instance
from multiple threads/processes? Looking at xenbus_dev_write() I
can't see how such writes would be serialized, yet assuming that user
mode code always writes full messages it would seem consistent to
allow such.

Thanks, Jan


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