Frank van der Linden wrote:
>
> Most FSs need this kind of lock, so I was thinking of putting it in an
> even more general place (perhaps vfs_subr.c, or a to-be-created
> miscfs/genfs/genfs_subr.c, that needs to be discussed).
> 
> If I get some more positive feedback, I'll check things in.

Thank you for your patch: so far so good: no panics after a sup, the
beginnings of a build, and a script that generates a bunch of
directories. I think my box would have fallen over by now without it
(it did while compiling in the patch).

Patrick