El jue, 17-03-2005 a las 17:02 -0500, Daniel Phillips escribió: > Hi Patricio, > Perhaps you meant, how does your program ask for a lock? Or how does > DLM get a lock from a nonlocal machine? From userspace, you go through > a library that presents an interface similar to ancient Vaxcluster, and > later, IBM's OpenDLM. (But somewhat more complex because of the > hierarchical locks feature and a few other wrinkles.) These API calls > are translated into socket messages to and from the in-kernel DLM. The > local DLM consults its lock directory to find out which machine masters > the lock and requests the lock from that machine, which then tries to > get the lock based on its knowledge of current holders, if any. > > Does that answer your question? > Daniel, thx for the answer, but i have another question. Its necesary that the programs be build agains or with the dlm api? because if they need to, i dont see the benefits of dlm. -- Patricio Bruna pbruna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Red Hat Certified Engineer Jefe Soporte y Operaciones LinuxCenter S.A. Canada 239, 5to piso, Providencia, Chile http://www.linuxcenterla.com +56-2-2745000
