On 23-Aug-99 Greg Lehey wrote: > I'm a little surprised that there's any objection to the concept of > mandatory locking. In transaction processing, locking is not > optional, and if any process at all can access a file or set of files > without locking, you can't guarantee the database integrity. Other > OSs have used mandatory locking for decades, and System V has it too. > So far I haven't seen any arguments, let alone valid ones, against > having it in FreeBSD.
I think its a good idea, and hey if people object it can always be an option like -> option NO_MANDATORY_LOCKING Phew, that was tough. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum
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