Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Jan 1999 18:53:45 +1300 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: Multiple simultaneous writes |
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On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 08:53:56PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> Look at the tty code - you need to drop the inode write semaphore, > then all will work the way you wish.
How do you do this for updating an inode -- the best I can see is to shrink the amount of time any lock is held, presumably you can get this down to a few cycles (ie. write data, lock, updated fields, unlock -- assuming we don't every synchronously update inodes?)
-cw
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