From owner-freebsd-fs Tue Aug 4 11:01:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA24653 for freebsd-fs-outgoing; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 11:01:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA24123; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 10:58:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA03021; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 13:58:33 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 13:58:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <199808041758.NAA03021@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: core@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Exclusive locking for directory lookups? Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Does anybody remember why plain-jane directory lookups (i.e., not deleting or creating anything) require an exclusive lock on all the directory vnodes along the path? It would seem to be that only shared locks should be necessary in those cases... -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message