> On Friday 23 April 2010 15:32:57 Owain Ainsworth wrote:
> > CVSROOT:    /cvs
> > Module name:        src
> > Changes by: o...@cvs.openbsd.org    2010/04/23 13:32:57
> >
> > Modified files:
> >     sys/ntfs       : ntfs_ihash.c
> >
> > Log message:
> > It is about time that we stopped pretending simple_locks are locks.
> >
> > replace ntfs_nthash_slock usage with comments prefixed XXXLOCKING (for
> > grepability).
> >
> > This lock looks to be correct, but it could well be the bad way to do it
> > (having a rwlock for inserts to avoid races inserting the same inode but
> > then simple locking on list accesses).
> >
> > approach discussed with deraadt@
> 
> First, thanks for the bit of love on the ntfs stuff.  I use my laptop 
> routinely now, to rescue files from diseased Windows machines.
> 
> For this change (and the cd?), is there anything special I should be
> looking out for, when testing this?  Anything that might push the
> envelope some?

Read the commit again.  It changes nothing.

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