record locking priority
Marcus Brinkmann <[email protected]>
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Hi, the reason I am pushing for the discussion of the record locking related interfaces is that some components in GNOME 2 (gconf in particular) rely on POSIX record locking and complain loudly and fail to work otherwise. This makes record locking from a nice to have feature to a necessary feature. Just as an explanation. I think we can live with an almost complete implementation (for example, it would not be too important to have task death alone remove locks in a first version, as usually task death also will imply no-senders or even explicit closes, I hope). But we should get the interface right and then implement as much as easily possible. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' GNU http://www.gnu.org [email protected] Marcus Brinkmann The Hurd http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/ [email protected] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de/