Re: Newsletter Article

Tyler Dauwalder <tyler-cyCl/[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. :-)

I haven't touched it, since I mentioned it. Yes, I should. Although, it 
would be kind of fun to see, how long Michael manages to write all 
three aricles. ;-)

CU, Ingo