On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 10:23:35AM +0200, Derrick Brashear wrote:
> > "persistent-state-with-lock-free-asynchronous-updates"-library would
> > be written and used by the applications, implementing transaction-like
> > updates with automated merges - taking into account the semantics of
> > the data to be merged. Alas, such a library does not yet exist (or at
> > least apparently is not being used :)
> 
> I wrote one in perl (4!) many years ago. no one seemed overly interested in 
> the concept. There is room in OpenAFS several places for this sort of 
> 'decision engine'

The application writers most probably assume that "usable by 90% of the
audience is enough" and quite probably it is still the majority of the
users who have local home directories... :-/

The above builds up a regretful hinder for deployment of global ones :(

I would like to look at your code (if it is OSS).

Regards,
Rune

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