From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <5a377994acef744dd4fd1e71bae22fe5@terzarima.net> From: Charles Forsyth Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2010 22:28:19 +0100 To: 9fans@9fans.net In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Async clunk? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 45bac40c-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 close must be synchronous, unless you aim for NFS semantics. plan 9 will hand the work to a service process [only] when a process is interrupted by a note during a closefgrp (eg, when a file-group is closed when a process exits), to allow deadlocks to be broken (by a note), or to compensate for dead servers, not to improve latency.