Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267186AbTGHLO1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2003 07:14:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267166AbTGHLOW (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2003 07:14:22 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:12268 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267186AbTGHLMX (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2003 07:12:23 -0400 Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 12:26:58 +0100 From: Matthew Wilcox To: Alex Tomas Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC] parallel directory operations Message-ID: <20030708112658.GJ23597@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> References: <87wuetukpa.fsf@gw.home.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87wuetukpa.fsf@gw.home.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 800 Lines: 18 On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 03:01:05PM +0000, Alex Tomas wrote: > I would to like to see any comments/suggestions. > dynamic locks. supports exclusive and shared locks. exclusive lock may > be taken several times by first owner. Yuck. It spins, it sleeps, it can be acquired recursively by the same process. Ugly stuff. -- "It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or victory, it is about death. I've seen thousands and thousands of dead bodies. Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this subject?" -- Robert Fisk - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/