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Date: Wed,  1 Nov 2006 01:36:44 +1100
From: "Bruce Ellis" <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] 9P and locking
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See you in Madrid or read the paper.

brucee

On 11/1/06, Alejo Sanchez <alejos@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>