Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC] Patch to allow distributed flock | From | Trond Myklebust <> | Date | Thu, 24 Jun 2004 21:47:14 -0400 |
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På to , 24/06/2004 klokka 21:37, skreiv Trond Myklebust: > På to , 24/06/2004 klokka 20:07, skreiv Ken Preslan: > > > If the FS is managing the posix locks and/or flocks, is there really a > > reason to acquire the VFS versions of the locks too? As long as there is > > some bit set that tells the VFS to call down into the FS to unlock the > > locks on process exit, keeping both sets of locks seems wasteful. > > What am I missing?
...Oh I forgot to mention --- If you want to support mandatory locks (?) then the VFS interface can serve as a billboard for posting those regions of the file that are off-limits to other processes.
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