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From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Async clunk?
Date: Sat,  7 Aug 2010 22:33:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8f4c45be55eeb446160bc8dbf6dd1035@terzarima.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5a377994acef744dd4fd1e71bae22fe5@terzarima.net>

>close must be synchronous, unless you aim for NFS semantics.

to be more explicit: think of exclusive-use services, services that wait for a close to commit,
files with DMEXCL, and files opened ORCLOSE



  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-07 21:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-07 17:18 Venkatesh Srinivas
2010-08-07 21:28 ` Charles Forsyth
2010-08-07 21:33   ` Charles Forsyth [this message]
2010-08-08  3:56     ` Bruce Ellis
2010-08-08  7:04       ` Charles Forsyth
2010-08-08  7:13         ` Bruce Ellis
2010-08-08  6:18     ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2010-08-08  7:10       ` Charles Forsyth
2010-08-08 14:17         ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2010-08-08 17:02           ` Bruce Ellis

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