On Wednesday, April 16, 2014 13:16:33 Jeremy Allison wrote: > On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 10:00:46PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > > [CC += Jeremy Allison] > > > > On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 8:57 PM, Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Sorry to spam so many lists, but I think this needs widespread > > > distribution and consensus. > > > > > > File-private locks have been merged into Linux for v3.15, and *now* > > > people are commenting that the name and macro definitions for the new > > > file-private locks suck. > > > > > > ...and I can't even disagree. They do suck. > > > > > > We're going to have to live with these for a long time, so it's > > > important that we be happy with the names before we're stuck with them. > > > > So, to add my perspective: The existing byte-range locking system has > > persisted (despite egregious faults) for well over two decades. One > > supposes that Jeff's new improved version might be around > > at least as long. With that in mind, and before setting in stone (and > > pushing into POSIX) a model of thinking that thousands of programmers > > will live with for a long time, it's worth thinking about names. > > > > > Michael Kerrisk suggested several names but I think the only one that > > > doesn't have other issues is "file-associated locks", which can be > > > distinguished against "process-associated" locks (aka classic POSIX > > > locks). > > > > The names I have suggested are: > > file-associated locks > > > > or > > > > file-handle locks > > > > or (using POSIX terminology) > > > > file-description locks > > Thanks for the CC: Michael, but to be honest > I don't really care what the name is, I just > want the functionality. I can change our build > system to cope with detecting it under any name > you guys choose :-). > > Cheers, > > Jeremy. I and the rest of the nfs-ganesha community are with Jeremy and samba wrt names. We just want locks that work, i.e. Useful Locks ;) Jim > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book > "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their > applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, > this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/NeoTech > _______________________________________________ > Nfs-ganesha-devel mailing list > Nfs-ganesha-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs-ganesha-devel -- Jim Lieb Linux Systems Engineer Panasas Inc. "If ease of use was the only requirement, we would all be riding tricycles" - Douglas Engelbart 1925–2013 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
