Re: struct file reference at VFS level

[Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 02:07:22PM +0000, Taylor R Campbell wrote:
>    I talked to the glusterFS developer that hit the problem about the 
>    requirement. This is to iplement mandatory locks, a feature not available 
>    in UFS.
> 
> Why is this file-system-specific?

It is not filesystem-specific: the point is that there is no need
for such a VFS feature in the filesystems currently supported
by NetBSD? because none of them enforces mandatory locks.

> Can you share a pointer to the relevant logic?

There was an exaple in my previous message.

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Emmanuel Dreyfus
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