From owner-freebsd-current Thu Feb 6 8:13:18 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CF7037B401 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 08:13:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail12.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B28543F3F for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 08:13:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 18542 invoked from network); 6 Feb 2003 16:13:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail12.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 6 Feb 2003 16:13:16 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h16GDBUT000931; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 11:13:11 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 11:13:19 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: Julian Elischer Subject: RE: vnode locking question. Cc: FreeBSD current users Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 05-Feb-2003 Julian Elischer wrote: > > Is there ever a case when a vnode is locked for longer than the duration > of the syscall that locked it? Shouldn't be. That would be a bug I believe. Userland threads should never hold any kernel locks. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message