Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 13:04:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 13:04:41 -0500 Received: from donkeykong.gpcc.itd.umich.edu ([141.211.2.163]:63698 "EHLO donkeykong.gpcc.itd.umich.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 13:04:20 -0500 Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 13:04:18 -0500 (EST) From: "Kendrick M. Smith" X-X-Sender: To: cc: Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.4.18-pre9, trylock for read/write semaphores Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue Feb 12 2002, 17:45:00 EST, Brian Watson wrote: > Marcelo- > > Attached is a patch that adds trylock routines for read/write > semaphores. David Howells saw it last August and thought it was ready > to be submitted then, but I became distracted and haven't taken the > time to submit it until now. My motivation is that Christoph Hellwig > says he needs it for JFS. I just returned from vacation and saw this thread. I also need trylock() routines for read-write semaphores for NFS version 4, but you're way ahead of me: I hadn't even started to implement them yet, and have been working around the deficiency. So I would really like to see some variant of this patch go into the 2.5.x series eventually. Anything I can do to help out? Cheers, Kendrick Smith Center for Information Technology and Integration, University of Michigan - 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/