Fw: Re: Implemented OPLOCK for FreeBsd
Jeremy Allison
jra at samba.org
Fri Sep 7 20:03:04 GMT 2001
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 08:20:25PM -0500, Jonathan Lemon wrote:
> No. Essentially what happens is when you register the event
> with the kernel, (the equivalent of fcntl(fd, F_GETLEASE,...)),
> resources are allocated at that time, and failures reported to
> the app. From that point on, no failures will happen because
> all required resources have been allocated.
Fair point. This could be done with a very smart POSIX.4
implementation that treated the 'request lease' fcntl in
a special way (ensured that there were enough signal queue
slots for the incoming signal) but that would be really
ugly inside a kernel :-(.
Jeremy.
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