The 5.15 kernel has been released

Posted Nov 1, 2021 19:24 UTC (Mon) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: The 5.15 kernel has been released by anselm
Parent article: The 5.15 kernel has been released

> There's nothing wrong with two programs opening the same file for writing at the same time.

Think databases. Or even filesystems. Do you really want somebody writing a file to have to lock the filesystem (after all, on nix it's just another file ...)

Cheers,
Wol