On Sunday, 22 August 1999 at 22:07:04 -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote: > <<On Mon, 23 Aug 1999 10:06:54 +0930, Greg Lehey <g...@lemis.com> said: > >> Correct. I suppose it's worth discussing what the default should be. >> Should they get EAGAIN or block? Obviously you'd want a way of >> specifying which, but there would have to be a default for >> non-lock-aware programs. I think I'd go for blocking; it's less error >> prone. > > I'd be strongly opposed to any sort of mandatory locking. The whole > notion is unspeakably evil, although this is mitigated somewhat if it > does not apply to processes with appropriate privilege.
That's a strange thing to say. Should we do away with locks in the kernel too? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger g...@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
