On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Hiten Pandya wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 10:53:08AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote the words in effect 
>of:
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, John Baldwin wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > On 05-Feb-2003 Julian Elischer wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Is there ever a case when a vnode is locked for longer than the duration
> > > > of the syscall that locked it?
> > > 
> > > Shouldn't be.  That would be a bug I believe.  Userland threads should
> > > never hold any kernel locks.
> > 
> > That's what I think too but I just thought I'd ask..
> > (NFS worries me a bit)
> > 
> 
> If It did, wouldn't that give a panic() with something like:
>       "panic: mutex held on exit to userland..."
> 
> ... or something like that?

lockmgr loacks are not the same as mutexes (though they should be merged 
some time.)


> 
> -- 
> Hiten Pandya ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED])
> http://www.unixdaemons.com/~hiten/
> 


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