Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 07:50:46 -0400
From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@poochiereds.net>
To: "Matt W. Benjamin" <matt@linuxbox.com>
Cc: Ganesha NFS List <nfs-ganesha-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
        lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Linux-Fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>,
        "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>, Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>,
        samba-technical@lists.samba.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org,
        "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
        "Frank Filz" <ffilzlnx@mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: OFD ("file private") locks and NFS
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On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 07:40:08 -0400 (EDT)
"Matt W. Benjamin" <matt@linuxbox.com> wrote:

> Hi Jeff,
> 
> Something which came up on the last Ganesha conn call is that we have
> a pretty strong need for some ability to wait on a set of locks, and perhaps
> receive events.  Frank Filz believed that you had made a proposal which
> would cover this.  Can you elaborate on that?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Matt
> 

No, there's no mechanism to wait on a set of locks from within the
context of a single thread of execution or to receive "events". Again,
that would be a new API beyond what I've been proposing over the last
several months.
-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton@poochiereds.net>
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