On 9/3/05, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Daniel Phillips <phillips@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The model you came up with for dlmfs is beyond cute, it's downright clever.
Actually I think it's rather sick. Taking O_NONBLOCK and making it a
lock-manager trylock because they're kinda-sorta-similar-sounding? Spare
me. O_NONBLOCK means "open this file in nonblocking mode", not "attempt to
acquire a clustered filesystem lock". Not even close.
No, it's "open this file in nonblocking mode" vs "attempt to acquire a lock in nonblocking mode". I think it makes perfect sense to use this flag.
Of course, whether or not to use open as a means to acquire a lock (in either blocking or nonblocking mode) is efficient is another matter.
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