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Date:      Mon, 23 Aug 1999 21:07:24 +0930 (CST)
From:      "Daniel J. O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
Cc:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.org>, FreeBSD Committers <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Subject:   Re: Mandatory locking?
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990823210724.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <199908230843.JAA51695@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org>

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On 23-Aug-99 Brian Somers wrote:
> > I think its a good idea, and hey if people object it can always be an
> > option
> > like ->
> > option NO_MANDATORY_LOCKING
>  Not quite - developers have to deal with the mess that it would cause 
>  - Matt for example says:

Well, I think it would be a useful option, so adding the ability to disable it
would possibly keep the people that hate it happy :)

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Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum




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