* Jay Sprenkle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-01-22 15:20]: > My understanding was that a "shared lock" is a metaphor, and > IMHO, a fairly stupid one. If you lock a room, nobody else can > get in, it's not a mechanism for sharing, it's a mechanism for > preventing sharing.
Reasoning by analogy rarely leads to anything but a fallacy. A shared lock prevents exclusive locks from being granted and an exclusive lock prevents shared locks from being granted, so I’m not sure what sort of sharing/preventing business you’re talking about anyway. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
