From: "Alejo Sanchez" <alejos@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] 9P and locking
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:11:49 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3190d0e50610310811v5a4a6553oa67e37eb71c7fc20@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <001a50a78f873e5868ec3fd72944686a@terzarima.net>
On 10/31/06, Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net> wrote:
> >> > 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.
The database is already doing it and it's quite fast and stable. I'm
only working on the remote file service.
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[not found] <3190d0e50610250505j723f392fp319da7ff20adc313@mail.gmail.com>
2006-10-31 14:25 ` Alejo Sanchez
2006-10-31 14:36 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-10-31 14:39 ` Anel Philippe
2006-10-31 14:44 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-10-31 15:16 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-10-31 16:09 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-10-31 16:11 ` Alejo Sanchez [this message]
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