From owner-freebsd-current Thu Feb 6 10:53:13 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA92F37B407; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 10:53:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01.attbi.com [204.127.202.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE7B743F93; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 10:53:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from interjet.elischer.org (12-232-168-4.client.attbi.com[12.232.168.4]) by sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01) with ESMTP id <2003020618530900100g3nole>; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 18:53:10 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA08547; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 10:53:09 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 10:53:08 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: John Baldwin Cc: FreeBSD current users Subject: RE: vnode locking question. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 05-Feb-2003 Julian Elischer wrote: > > > > Is there ever a case when a vnode is locked for longer than the duration > > of the syscall that locked it? > > Shouldn't be. That would be a bug I believe. Userland threads should > never hold any kernel locks. That's what I think too but I just thought I'd ask.. (NFS worries me a bit) > > -- > > John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ > "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message