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Date:      Fri, 7 Jun 1996 23:41:31 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        nate@sri.MT.net (Nate Williams)
Cc:        terry@lambert.org, nate@sri.MT.net, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: The -stable problem: my view
Message-ID:  <199606080641.XAA05690@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <199606080618.AAA03027@rocky.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Jun 8, 96 00:18:47 am

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> > If "committer #1" checks in changes to modules A, B, C, and Q,
> > and "committer #2" cheks in changes to modules X, Y, Z, and Q,
> > and there is a cumulative conflict, who is at fault if their
> > access was not serialized?
> > 
> > Answer: the tools.
> 
> Problem:  99.9% of the time no-one steps on anyone else's code.  So
> again this is a NON-ISSUE.

Then you argument against single writer locks is no longer valid.

Let us address your agument against reader locks: is it the fact
that the checkout will be internally consistent, with no partial
checkins, that you don't like?


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.



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