how would the fs determine that the machine hosting the 
client is in casters-up mode?

- erik

On Mon Apr  3 10:12:35 CDT 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> When a ORCLOSE file is created by a process at
> machine A into a FS at machine B, if the machine
> A goes away (e.g., you power it down), the file
> is not removed. This is as it could be expected, because
> ORCLOSE, IFAIK, is processed by the kernel during the cleanup
> done for the process while it exits.
> 
> My question is, whouldn't it be better to honor ORCLOSE
> within the file server? (i.e., lib9p and fossil, mostly).
> This is more resilient to failures and disconnections of the
> client kernel. Otherwise, files are kept hanging around.
> 
> I was about to change this for Plan B, because we use
> ORCLOSE files to announce our file trees. If this is no ok
> for Plan 9 as well, I'll use something else for our announces.
> 
> thanks
> 
> 

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