On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 01:48:15PM -0400, Daniel Phillips wrote: > On Tuesday 19 October 2004 11:20, Benjamin Marzinski wrote: > > > O.k. stupid question time: If a userspace process graps this > > exclusive lock, and then dies unexpectedly, does the lock > > automatically get freed? > > Yes. Though I haven't looked closely at this, it seems the locks are > cleaned up when the fd that libdlm creates to pass lock completions to > userspace is closed. It's not strictly coupled to process exit, it's > even more sensible. > o.k. As long as a server never loses it's lock while there is the possibility that it could write to disk, and the lock gets automatically freed once the process has died, I don't have any objections. -Ben
