Fw: Re: Locking: kern/50827

2004-07-17 Thread Stephen Hurd
Begin forwarded message: Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 23:01:27 -0400 From: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Stephen Hurd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Locking: kern/50827 On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 04:06:45PM -0600, Stephen Hurd wrote: > >

Re: Locking: kern/50827

2004-07-09 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 04:06:45PM -0600, Stephen Hurd wrote: > > Right, if you just make it cross-platform in the first place using > > higher- level primitives you don't have to worry what the specific > > kernel and operating system and file system you are using provides. > > It's my opinion th

Re: Locking: kern/50827

2004-07-04 Thread Stephen Hurd
> Right, if you just make it cross-platform in the first place using > higher- level primitives you don't have to worry what the specific > kernel and operating system and file system you are using provides. > It's my opinion tha there won't be other people adopting this API for > file locking sin

Re: Locking: kern/50827

2004-07-04 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 07:20:41PM -0600, Stephen Hurd wrote: > > > Has anyone looked at this? Does anyone have any comments? > > > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/50827 > > > > I don't think you'll ever find anyone interested in file locking > > anymore. Since they're all a

Re: Locking: kern/50827

2004-06-30 Thread Stephen Hurd
> > Has anyone looked at this? Does anyone have any comments? > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/50827 > > I don't think you'll ever find anyone interested in file locking > anymore. Since they're all advisory, anyway, you can just implement them > at a higher level in your a

Re: Locking: kern/50827

2004-06-28 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 05:49:19PM -0600, Stephen Hurd wrote: > Well, possibly due to editorial content, kern/50827 has been completely > ignored. Not sure exactly the correct method of bringing something like > this up, but am I the only one who finds flock(), dotlock, and fcntl() > locks insuffi

Locking: kern/50827

2004-06-24 Thread Stephen Hurd
Well, possibly due to editorial content, kern/50827 has been completely ignored. Not sure exactly the correct method of bringing something like this up, but am I the only one who finds flock(), dotlock, and fcntl() locks insufficient for their needs? Originally, this patch resulted from porting a