On 10/03/05 12:35, Andrew Patterson wrote: > On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 18:29 +0200, Marcin Dalecki wrote: >>They give a means of possible synchronization between beneviolent >>users, but not a mandatory lock on the shared resource. >> > > > Nor do they protect against external events, such as disk > insertion/removals, and someone kicking a cable. As has _always_ been the case in UNIX: Provide capability, not policy. The more things are off loaded to userspace the better. Look at it this way: the deadbolt on your house door does not _eliminate_ the possibility of someone cleaning out your house, even if you have a security system and/or a guard dog. Same thing here. Luben - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
