Subject: Why does specfs use genfs_nolock?
To: NetBSD tech-kern <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 08/31/2004 10:31:26
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Any particular reason why specfs doesn't follow the locking protocol?  
(Sure leads to confusion when looking at code that use bdevvp() ... 
calls VOP_OPEN() without first vn_lock()'ing the vnode... and bdevvp() 
doesn't vn_lock() the vnode itself...).

         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>

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