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Subject: Re: bug in pw, -STABLE [patch]
In-Reply-To: <20020623230923.GM81018@over-yonder.net> from "Matthew D. Fuller" at "Jun 23, 2 06:09:23 pm"
To: fullermd@over-yonder.net (Matthew D. Fuller)
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Matthew D. Fuller writes:
...
> > Why use lockfiles, when we can lock files?  Let's lock files and
> > keep the snack bar open!  :-)
> 
> We are locking a file   :)
> We're just locking one file for the whole subsystem, so the pieces can be
> assured of being in sync.
Time to implement hierarchic lock.
hlock dir lead to fail hlock
every file in that dir with ref count == 1
??

Extremly unefficient

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