FCNTL on Solaris

[Jeremy Allison]

On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 01:24:36PM -0400, David Collier-Brown wrote:
> David Collier-Brown wrote:
> 
> >         I haven't looked at the code, but if it uses F_SETLKW
> >         you might want to do a trylock first, implemented via
> >         F_GETLK or F_SETLK, as this would allow subsequent
> >         processes to continue, knowing that someone's fixing
> >         the tdb, and that they can access it later using the
> >         normal locking regime.
> 
> 	A disclaimer: that isn't the way to do case
> 	3, it's the way to NOT do case three and be
> 	able to execute in bounded time, instead.
> 
> 	I reccomend it over case 3 **rather strongly**,
> 	as 3 goes nonlinear, and can be proved to
> 	fail (I just drew the dfa and it was evil!!!)
> 
> 	The stock approach is also nonlinear, with a
> 	higher overhead, so I guess it's doubly evil.
> 	That other OSs don't bottleneck on it says
> 	good things about their kernel programmers.

Errrr. I don't understand this email. What "case 3"
are you talking about here ?

Jeremy.