Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [BUG] FEATURE PLANS: revlib locking

[Aaron Bentley]

Andrew Suffield wrote:
> On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 08:55:28AM -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
>
> > ... I think it would make sense to have an 
> > invented-here locking mechanism that would definitely work on NFS, and 
> > maybe even SMB.
>
>
> Not gonna happen. There does not exist a method by which you can
> reliably acquire a lock without prior knowledge of the system or
> arbitrarily restricting the set of supported systems.

I mean a system specifically for locking revlibs, so we can make a lot 
of assumptions we otherwise couldn't.

Aaron