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From: shd@modeemi.cs.tut.fi (Heikki Orsila)
To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Subject: Re: fcntl(F_GETLEASE) semantics??
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 22:02:52 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050811190252.GF31158@jolt.modeemi.cs.tut.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1123786619.7095.47.camel@lade.trondhjem.org>

On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 02:56:59PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> inotify does not give you synchronous notification. It just tells you
> something has happened after the fact. Not the same thing at all.

Then what could be done for inotify to fit the purpose? SETLEASE is 
still a bad interface for userspace programs because it relies on 
signals and thus can't be conveniently put into shared libraries..

-- 
Heikki Orsila			Barbie's law:
heikki.orsila@iki.fi		"Math is hard, let's go shopping!"
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-11 19:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-10 23:48 Peter Chubb
2005-08-11  1:14 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-08-11  1:29   ` Peter Chubb
2005-08-11  8:14     ` fcntl(F GETLEASE) semantics?? Michael Kerrisk
2005-08-11 11:51       ` Trond Myklebust
2005-08-11 12:27         ` Michael Kerrisk
2005-08-11 12:49           ` Trond Myklebust
2005-08-11 13:22             ` Michael Kerrisk
2005-08-11 14:06               ` Trond Myklebust
2005-08-11 14:12                 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-08-11 14:20                 ` J. Bruce Fields
2005-08-11 14:42                   ` Michael Kerrisk
2005-08-11 14:40                 ` Michael Kerrisk
2005-08-11 15:06                   ` Trond Myklebust
2005-08-11 15:25                     ` Trond Myklebust
2005-08-11 14:10               ` Stephen Rothwell
2005-08-11 18:41 ` fcntl(F_GETLEASE) semantics?? Heikki Orsila
2005-08-11 18:56   ` Trond Myklebust
2005-08-11 19:02     ` Heikki Orsila [this message]
2005-08-11 19:15       ` Trond Myklebust
2005-08-11 19:23         ` Heikki Orsila
2005-08-11 19:31           ` Trond Myklebust

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