On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 5:02 AM, Rune <[email protected]> wrote: > 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).
/afs/dementia.org/web/anonftp/pub/mergefiles/ it's probably GPL, given when it dates from. might be BSD. it's free -- Derrick _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel
