Implemented OPLOCK for FreeBsd

Jeremy Allison jeremy at valinux.com
Fri Sep 7 12:52:02 GMT 2001


Jordan Hubbard wrote:
> 
> Thanks guys,
> 
> I also mailed some of this discussion to the freebsd developers
> mailing list, and some of them have already come up with a way of
> fully implementing the functionality needed by simply using kqueue.
> I'm currently arguing that we should use kqueue internally and support
> the Linux API externally, but in the interim I think Jonathan Lemon
> will be able to help provide a freebsd_oplocks.c that mostly just
> works out of the box if Ephi is willing to work with him a little.
> 
> - Jordan

Keeping the Linux external API would be good. We have 
commitments from other (large) UNIX vendors to look at
the Linux API as a "standard" way of doing this....

Jeremy.

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