From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <599f06db0811121308o7718a42em6dfa500fb85c6c0a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:08:28 +0100 From: "Gorka Guardiola" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <9d18311cc0380c7f862a7f81c288a5fc@terzarima.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] Do we have a catalog of 9P servers? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3fc5abae-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Brantley Coile wrote: > That explains why IBM's MVS didn't have locking at all. One would conclude > from that fact that locking isn't required to do even serious business > applications. > I don't follow your reasoning. Saying fcntl locking is not useful does not mean you don't need locking, just that you don't need fcntl. By the way, can you (forsyth) expand on why you couldn't use it/didn't work for you?. -- - curiosity sKilled the cat