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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
To: Alex Tomas <bzzz@tmi.comex.ru>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC] parallel directory operations
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 12:26:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030708112658.GJ23597@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wuetukpa.fsf@gw.home.net>

On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 03:01:05PM +0000, Alex Tomas wrote:
> I would to like to see any comments/suggestions.

> dynamic locks. supports exclusive and shared locks. exclusive lock may
> be taken several times by first owner.

Yuck.  It spins, it sleeps, it can be acquired recursively by the same
process.  Ugly stuff.

-- 
"It's not Hollywood.  War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or
victory, it is about death.  I've seen thousands and thousands of dead bodies.
Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this subject?" -- Robert Fisk

  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-08 11:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-08 15:01 Alex Tomas
2003-07-08 11:26 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2003-07-08 15:29   ` [Ext2-devel] " bzzz
2003-07-08 11:27 ` Arjan van de Ven

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