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From: Anel Philippe <xigh@free.fr>
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 15:39:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45476014.2080506@free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3190d0e50610310625s6a571ca3ne7150d46a86ac297@mail.gmail.com>

Locking is implemented through DMEXCL bit. See open(2).

    Phil;

Alejo Sanchez a écrit :
> Hi guys.
>
> I'm doing a minimal user space 9P implementation for a special
> distributed network storage. One of the features missing on the 9P
> protocol is file locking. Do you know why it was kept outside? Or am I
> missing something?
>
> 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?
>
> Cheers.
>
> Alejo
>
>



  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-10-31 14:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [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 [this message]
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

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