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
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 01:44:47 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <775b8d190610310644w822038frdc204969ed924ea@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45476014.2080506@free.fr>
yes, but that is not the locking that one may desire.
simplistic and effective but not a panacea.
brucee
On 11/1/06, Anel Philippe <xigh@free.fr> wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-31 14:44 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
2006-10-31 14:44 ` Bruce Ellis [this message]
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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