> 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
Not quite - developers have to deal with the mess that it would cause
- Matt for example says:
: Ugh. Yuch. No, nothing to do with permission bits, not for something
: this convoluted!
Are you saying that he should just enable an option and forget about
it when he tweaks something horrible in NFS that only a handfull of
others understand ?
:-I
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