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Re: About locking in the kernel

On Sun, 3 Aug 2003, Ian Kent wrote:

> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have been working on enhancements to the autofs4 kernel (together with 
> the daemon) module to add support for ghosting (aka. browsable 
> directories). Doing this has left me with the question of when and how 
> should locks and semaphores be used.
> 

Anybody willing to talk about this?

Is it a stupid question?

Or am I missing something or maybe everything?

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