Subject: Re: CVS commit: src
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/24/2004 22:42:17
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On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 09:16:03PM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote:
>=20
> On Jun 24, 2004, at 8:11 PM, Bill Studenmund wrote:
>=20
> >Anyone know how SystemV kernels handle this?
>=20
> File systems do all the locking themselves.

How do they handle lookup/create, lookup/delete, and lookup/lookup/rename?=
=20
Those are the few operation chains where, at least for leaf file systems,=
=20
it would be nice to keep some sort of inter-call locking. Or doing so=20
would be most-like what we do now.

Take care,

Bill

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