In implementing xLock in a VFS, do we need to worry
about lock counts, i.e. nested locking?

In other words, if a process asks for, say, a SHARED
lock, and he already has one, should we increment a
SHARED lock count?  Or is it okay to just return,
i.e. to treat the request as a no-op?

Thanks,
- Richard Klein

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