From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 22 23: 7: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 035AB15638; Sun, 22 Aug 1999 23:06:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA13326; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 15:35:24 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="_=XFMail.1.3.p0.FreeBSD:990823153524:19113=_"; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature" In-Reply-To: <19990823152849.H83273@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 15:35:24 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Greg Lehey Subject: Re: Mandatory locking? Cc: Garrett Wollman Cc: Garrett Wollman , FreeBSD Committers , FreeBSD Hackers , Poul-Henning Kamp , Matthew Dillon Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This message is in MIME format --_=XFMail.1.3.p0.FreeBSD:990823153524:19113=_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On 23-Aug-99 Greg Lehey wrote: > I'm a little surprised that there's any objection to the concept of > mandatory locking. In transaction processing, locking is not > optional, and if any process at all can access a file or set of files > without locking, you can't guarantee the database integrity. Other > OSs have used mandatory locking for decades, and System V has it too. > So far I haven't seen any arguments, let alone valid ones, against > having it in FreeBSD. I think its a good idea, and hey if people object it can always be an option like -> option NO_MANDATORY_LOCKING Phew, that was tough. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum --_=XFMail.1.3.p0.FreeBSD:990823153524:19113=_ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: 2.6.3ia iQCVAwUBN8DkpFbYW/HEoF9pAQHXIgP+Msx/yRSUg+W2htUKS3fsGjg6CDwDdhmN eQIugDYu62mXzjgtqnhvr4mTh3Hft98arr3f9zHK6o/NorXISfLHr/FZ47fGLaEC W+KeK91mVoljFEv9+dWvA6gpK/M9wYuOJEfpUcKNnxB0Q3wSGvocrn8UngiJtptw I+QFMCllquQ= =U2xH -----END PGP MESSAGE----- --_=XFMail.1.3.p0.FreeBSD:990823153524:19113=_-- End of MIME message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message