tech-kern: why unionfs has it's own locking ?

Subject: why unionfs has it's own locking ?
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Jaromir Dolecek <dolecek@ics.muni.cz>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/15/2000 13:05:49

Hi,
I noticed that unionfs uses it's own implementation of locking -
union_list_lock()/union_list_unlock(). Any reason why it
doesn't use "real" locks and lockmgr() instead of the ints and
it's own locking ?

Jaromir
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Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org>      http://www.ics.muni.cz/~dolecek/
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