In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Josef Sipek writes:

> > I did consider this issue of someone reading the file after someone
> > modified it but before it was committed and I wasn't quite sure how to
> > deal with it. You essentially have this problem with any psudofs unless
> > they commit every change to a file. You could do something along the
> > lines of having a file in there which is a lock and when a person wants
> > to modify the fs they cat something to the file (PID,1,...?) and then
> > its restricted to access from that person for the time being.
> 
> Nah. Just have the user specify the branch directory, mode and position at
> the same time into a special file "add" and have the kernel create the
> branch directory with the appropriate contents.

Your method doesn't allow for multiple ops at the same time: what if a user
wants to add two branches, delete one, and swap two others, all at once?

Erez.
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