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From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
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On Thu, 21 May 1998, Karl Denninger wrote:

> Diablo uses mmap to read, and write to do writes to the spool files.  
> It also does a hell of a lot of flock()ing.

It would seem that a lot of flocking would defeat the purpose of
softupdates.  Or is it that softupdates defeats the purpose of flocking?

Regards,


Mike


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