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

[Aaron Bentley]

Andrew Suffield wrote:
> NFS locking is somewhere between insanely complicated and completely
> stupid. There are many approaches, all of which suck. fcntl() is the
> only halfway reliable one, and if the server doesn't support it, it'll
> just fail to lock. Lots of NFS servers don't support it.

> SMB locking is incompatible with everything else on the planet. Just
> don't go there.

Thanks, Andrew.  Given that people want to be able to access revlibs 
over NFS (Hi Miles!), I think it would make sense to have an 
invented-here locking mechanism that would definitely work on NFS, and 
maybe even SMB.

Aaron