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Re:Compiler bug? Linker bug? Windows Kernel bug by barrkel on Monday February 26, 2018 @05:29AM (#16464360)
Memory-mapped I/O is a lot more precise a description of "writing" and more unusual than simply writing out, and execution similarly is not a normal read path for a just-written file.

The parent made it sounds like you could just write a loop with for(;;) { write_file("x"); read_file("x"); } and expect discrepancies. That's not the case and it's wilfully misleading to suggest it is.

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Re:Compiler bug? Linker bug? Windows Kernel bug by quietbritishjim on Monday February 26, 2018 @07:18AM (#16464762)
The parent said "in some cases". I guess it could be misinterpreted, but I took that to mean "in some very specific access patterns" (rather than, say, "in any access pattern some random small proportion of the time").
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Re:Compiler bug? Linker bug? Windows Kernel bug by ksk on Monday February 26, 2018 @11:41AM (#16466603)
Um, also, in some cases, I might win the lottery.
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