Re: Locking: kern/50827

From: Brian Fundakowski Feldman (green_at_freebsd.org)
Date: 06/28/04

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To: Stephen Hurd <shurd@sasktel.net>

    On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 05:49:19PM -0600, Stephen Hurd wrote:
    > Well, possibly due to editorial content, kern/50827 has been completely
    > ignored. Not sure exactly the correct method of bringing something like
    > this up, but am I the only one who finds flock(), dotlock, and fcntl()
    > locks insufficient for their needs? Originally, this patch resulted from
    > porting a multi-threaded Win32 program to *nix... however, I've since used
    > the features it in a number of programs (for FreeBSD only of course) with
    > good success. It really makes locking behave as expected.
    >
    > Has anyone looked at this? Does anyone have any comments?
    >
    > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/50827

    I don't think you'll ever find anyone interested in file locking anymore.
    Since they're all advisory, anyway, you can just implement them at a higher
    level in your application. BSD and System V IPC mechanisms already are
    very good building blocks here for system-scoped locks. 

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