On 23-Aug-99 Greg Lehey wrote:
> I'm a little surprised that there's any objection to the concept of
> mandatory locking. In transaction processing, locking is not
> optional, and if any process at all can access a file or set of files
> without locking, you can't guarantee the database integrity. Other
> OSs have used mandatory locking for decades, and System V has it too.
> So far I haven't seen any arguments, let alone valid ones, against
> having it in FreeBSD.
I think its a good idea, and hey if people object it can always be an option
like ->
option NO_MANDATORY_LOCKING
Phew, that was tough.
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