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 22:23:47 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050811192347.GG31158@jolt.modeemi.cs.tut.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1123787745.7095.53.camel@lade.trondhjem.org>
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 03:15:45PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> The difference between inotify and leases is, as I said, that leases
> notify the lease holder synchronously. This allows the notified process
> to flush all the cached information _before_ the operation that
> triggered the lease notification is executed.
So you're talking about the kernel side.. I was talking about userspace
perspective on the syscall. It would be rather odd to let a syscall
block other applications involuntarily (and thus achieving synchronous
action in your meaning)..
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-11 19:23 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
2005-08-11 19:15 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-08-11 19:23 ` Heikki Orsila [this message]
2005-08-11 19:31 ` Trond Myklebust
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