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From: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:40:16 +0100
Subject: [Cluster-devel] Re: [PATCH] dlm: overlapping cancel and unlock
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Hi,

On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 09:56 -0500, David Teigland wrote:
> Full cancel and force-unlock support.  In the past, cancel and force-unlock
> wouldn't work if there was another operation in progress on the lock.  Now,
> both cancel and unlock-force can overlap an operation on a lock, meaning there
> may be 2 or 3 operations in progress on a lock in parallel.  This support is
> important not only because cancel and force-unlock are explicit operations
> that an app can use, but both are used implicitly when a process exits while
> holding locks.
> 

Now pushed to the -nmw git tree. Thanks,

Steve.