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From: Costin Chirvasuta <costinc@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] bufreset deletes b->nbl-1 blocks?
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 19:25:51 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPv5z_0oEHG-i_La44wLufOKuaQmPjdonc_PU2hVD=7TGRHDLw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPd04b57YZu8JU1NHeoAE+FkU09dShBV6w9BYD8_WwYR7tXYmA@mail.gmail.com>

I believe bufreset can be called at any time and b->cbi (the current
cached block) can point to anything.
Either way, that block is never returned to the Disc's free list so
that file address won't be reused from that point on.

On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 7:16 PM, James A. Robinson <jimr@highwire.org> wrote:
> Have you checked whether or not that final block is
> special in some way?  For example only  mapped to
> memory and not to disk blocks?
>
> Jim
>



      reply	other threads:[~2016-08-12 16:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-12 12:30 Costin Chirvasuta
2016-08-12 15:20 ` James A. Robinson
2016-08-12 15:29   ` Costin Chirvasuta
2016-08-12 15:48     ` James A. Robinson
2016-08-12 16:10       ` Costin Chirvasuta
2016-08-12 16:16         ` James A. Robinson
2016-08-12 16:25           ` Costin Chirvasuta [this message]

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