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Date:      Tue, 28 Oct 2003 09:32:21 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To:        Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <des@des.no>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_sig.c
Message-ID:  <20031028173221.GF6725@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <xzpy8v89rm1.fsf@dwp.des.no>
References:  <200310251614.h9PGE925019013@repoman.freebsd.org> <20031025233749.GW99943@elvis.mu.org> <xzpy8v89rm1.fsf@dwp.des.no>

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* Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <des@des.no> [031026 03:16] wrote:
> Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> writes:
> > This is bad, it's time to add a flag to the vnode to do this
> > properly instead of relying upon the underlying FS to implement
> > the locking.
> 
> Sounds like a layering violation to me - or am I talking out of my
> nether regions?

The underlying filesystem can not be trusted to do the locking for
us and we can do a better job of it ourselves.

-- 
- Alfred Perlstein
- Research Engineering Development Inc.
- email: bright@mu.org cell: 408-480-4684



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