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

[Julian T. J. Midgley]

In article <address@hidden>,
Andrew Suffield  <address@hidden> wrote:
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>On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 02:14:39PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
>> But if you want to support almost any other combinations of
>> anything then you're screwed.
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>Oh, and hint: it is not without good reason that expansions such as
>"Network Failure Service", "No File is Safe", became popular.

I understood that 

 1. Create nonce file 
 2. hardlink lock file to it
 3. check reference count of nonce file 

Was a reliable way of locking files across NFS.  Is this not the case?

Julian



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