On Jun 29, 2006, at 7:11 PM, Bill Studenmund wrote:

> This was in response to my comments, which in turn were a response to
> comments you made many moons ago decrying recursive locking in our  
> file
> systems. :-)

Multiple acquires of a shared lock is different than recursive  
acquisition of an exclusive lock.  Those definitely make me want to  
barf.

-- thorpej