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At 3/29/2004 03:32 PM +0200, Tomasz Rola wrote: >BTW, if I understand correctly, to read something from the tree one >doesn't really need to lock it. Only writes should be locked. Locking on reads prevents getting a copy of the tree with half of someone else's changes that were written during your read. That gets more likely as the time it takes to read the entire tree increases. -- Jeff Woods <kazrak+kernel@cesmail.net> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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