cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_sig.c

Alfred Perlstein bright at mu.org
Tue Oct 28 09:32:23 PST 2003


* Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <des at des.no> [031026 03:16] wrote:
> Alfred Perlstein <bright at mu.org> writes:
> > This is bad, it's time to add a flag to the vnode to do this
> > properly instead of relying upon the underlying FS to implement
> > the locking.
> 
> Sounds like a layering violation to me - or am I talking out of my
> nether regions?

The underlying filesystem can not be trusted to do the locking for
us and we can do a better job of it ourselves.

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