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- From: Tyler Dauwalder <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeosstorage@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 00:27:53 -0700
I knew I'd missed something somewhere...
On 2003-04-03 at 22:32:36 [-0800], Ingo Weinhold wrote:
> > one could get away with only locking a portion of
> > the drive during a task, and thus let the user muck around with the
> > rest of it if desired. So it might be useful to support fine grained
> > locking. However, is it worth the overhead (1 lock per partition)=3F
>
> I think, non-blocking locking should be sufficient, or maybe even the
> better choice. Anyway, even if blocking only one semaphore per
> actually
> waiting thread would be required. By accident I almost finished
> writing
> a newsletter article on a quite similar locking problem during my off
> time. :-)
What happened to it? You should finish it. :-)
-Tyler
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