Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 11:57:56 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Brian Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man9 VOP_ATTRIB.9 Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020205115429.59189E-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <200202051526.g15FQTK14036@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Is this really true? While it wasn't formally true at one point, in practice I think many filesystems rely on the vnode lock to maintain the consistency of the attributes and protect them from modification. Something we should probably stick on the BSDCon summit schedule is VFS locking... Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Brian Feldman wrote: > green 2002/02/05 07:26:29 PST > > Modified files: > share/man/man9 VOP_ATTRIB.9 > Log: > Document that VOP_GETATTR(9) does not actually expect to hold an > exclusive lock on entry. > > Sponsored by: DARPA, NAI Labs > > Revision Changes Path > 1.14 +3 -3 src/share/man/man9/VOP_ATTRIB.9 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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