On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 10:12:37PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: > > This was the change that came up on the thread "fatfs locking". It might > > still be desireable for fatfs, but I don't know enough about that case to > > really be sure. > > There is no fix for the fatfs locking problem yet. This patch can fix the > problem :). > > I thought about an other solution for the problem, although it is a stange > solution it might solve the problem. The thread in fatfs will deadlock > because that thread already locked the node, what if the function that locks > the node check if the node is locked by that thread and won't lock if it is? > That will solve the problem and won't cause troubles for other diskfs > translators. > > I was thinking about the functions "diskfs_lock_node" and > "diskfs_unlock_node". If everybody agrees I'm willing to write those and > adept libdiskfs and the translators using libdiskfs to use those functions.
Pthreads already has recursive locks as an X/Open extension, I don't think such changes are needed because we will switch to pthreads within a few months anyhow. Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRC ID: jeroen@openprojects GNU supporter - http://www.gnu.org
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