Newsletter Article

I knew I'd missed something somewhere...

On 2003-04-03 at 22:32:36 [-0800], Ingo Weinhold wrote:
> > one could get away with only locking a portion of
> > the drive during a task, and thus let the user muck around with the
> > rest of it if desired. So it might be useful to support fine grained
> > locking. However, is it worth the overhead (1 lock per partition)=3F
> 
> I think, non-blocking locking should be sufficient, or maybe even the
> better choice. Anyway, even if blocking only one semaphore per 
> actually
> waiting thread would be required. By accident I almost finished 
> writing
> a newsletter article on a quite similar locking problem during my off
> time. :-)

What happened to it? You should finish it. :-)

-Tyler