From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
To: "Joseph D. Wagner" <theman@josephdwagner.info>
Cc: willy@debian.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Does mandatory locking need to be set when the file is locked?
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 08:23:10 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031215082310.75d92d1e.rddunlap@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000001c3c323$24154030$0201a8c0@joe>
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 09:50:18 -0600 "Joseph D. Wagner" <theman@josephdwagner.info> wrote:
| > Please, don't use mandatory locking. It's racy (by design), buggy
| > (by design) and adds code to the fast path.
provide suggested alternatives...
| What!?! Are you saying mandatory locking doesn't always work?
|
| Exactly what are the known bugs, and when do they happen?
|
| My program DEPENDS upon mandatory locking, so I'd like a little more info before I abandon that route entirely.
|
| Thanks for your time.
--
~Randy
MOTD: Always include version info.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-15 16:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-15 1:57 Does mandatory locking need to be set when the file is locked? Joseph D. Wagner
2003-12-15 15:38 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-12-15 15:50 ` Joseph D. Wagner
2003-12-15 16:23 ` Randy.Dunlap [this message]
2003-12-15 18:09 ` Trond Myklebust
2003-12-15 18:59 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-12-16 19:13 ` Bryan Henderson
2003-12-16 20:33 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-12-16 21:48 ` Trond Myklebust
2003-12-16 22:00 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-12-15 17:05 ` Bryan Henderson
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