Byte-range locking has now been implemented for Windows. The code has been committed to the cvs head. I hope to backport the changes to a post 1.4.0 release after it is proven to be stable.
Jeffrey Altman Neulinger, Nathan wrote: > Yes, it's been discussed several times, and yes, it should almost > certainly work, please read the list archives and twiki. > > No, patches don't exist. Most useful platform is windows, and I don't > have much interest in developing for it. > > Patches would certainly be welcomed on the windows side since it is so > negatively impacted by the lack of byte range locks. > > -- Nathan > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Nathan Neulinger EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > University of Missouri - Rolla Phone: (573) 341-6679 > UMR Information Technology Fax: (573) 341-4216 > > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Buehler >>Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 9:02 AM >>To: [email protected] >>Subject: [OpenAFS-devel] byte-range locking >> >>If I understand the existing code correctly, a server process >>(I don't know which one -- fileserver?) keeps track of >>clients that have >>exclusive or non-exclusive locks on a file. Clients are >>responsible for keeping track of which processes have such locks. >> >>So it looks as though it should be easy to add local byte-range >>locking for processes on a single machine. Read locks would be >>propagated to the server as shared locks, and write locks would >>propagate as exclusive locks, and the byte ranges would be >>handled in the local client kernel code. >> >>Does someone already have patches for this perhaps? >>-- >>Joe Buehler >> >>_______________________________________________ >>OpenAFS-devel mailing list >>[email protected] >>https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel
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