On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 10:34:41AM +0100, David Howells wrote: > I'll need to test the upgrade/downgrade case. I don't know whether the AFS > server supports that. If it doesn't, I can emulate downgrade, but not upgrade > - not unless I only ever ask it for exclusive locks. > > Lock upgrading is really, really easy to contrive deadlock for.
Any such deadlock is the user's fault. But, right, I agree that upgrades are probably hard to use correctly. And that implementing them shouldn't be a priority in the case of AFS. Just as long as the implementation doesn't completely fall over when somebody attempts an upgrade. --b. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
