From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 24 23:13:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.xmission.com (mail.xmission.com [198.60.22.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5AA01594F for ; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 23:13:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from [204.68.178.39] (helo=softweyr.com) by mail.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 11JWHM-0004RQ-00; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 00:11:25 -0600 Message-ID: <37C3890B.7AD1E44F@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 00:11:23 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: Christopher Masto , FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: Mandatory locking? References: <19990823231130.A16133@netmonger.net> <19990823232726.B16133@netmonger.net> <37C2B148.60FB81FA@newsguy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > > Christopher Masto wrote: > > > > I don't see the use for it. > > :-) > > The thing is SO obviously flawed, that I wonder how many marketoid > drones it took to make sensible people think it is actually useful. > :-) And how many programmers with nearly (or more than) two decades of UNIX experience it takes to convince someone it really is useful. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://softweyr.com/ wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message