From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <001a50a78f873e5868ec3fd72944686a@terzarima.net> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] 9P and locking From: Charles Forsyth Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 15:16:28 +0000 In-Reply-To: <775b8d190610310644w822038frdc204969ed924ea@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: d98720f4-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 >> > So far my plan to extend is to have messages mimicking fcntl, but >> > maybe that's not the best way to get it done. Did anyone work on >> > locking and would like to share their experience or opinion? in commercial unix database work i never found the in-built fcntl or record locking particularly useful and did my own. it was the usual `both too much and too little' with the system's attempt, and thus i found it fairly pointless. i wrote up something about it at the time but sadly that was years before the dumps started.