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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!sun-barr!olivea!decwrl!pa.dec.com!e2big.mko.dec.com!peavax.mlo.dec.com!paik From: paik@mlo.dec.com (Samuel S. Paik) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: File Truncation Philosophy Message-ID: <1993Apr5.012329.27115@peavax.mlo.dec.com> Date: 5 Apr 93 01:23:29 GMT References: <C4tJ6C.C17@ns1.nodak.edu> <deeken.733841578@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de> <1993Apr3.211204.1723@peavax.mlo.dec.com> <1pnaaq$qqv@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu> Sender: usenet@peavax.mlo.dec.com (USENET News System) Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Alpha Personal Systems Software Group Lines: 7 In article <1pnaaq$qqv@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu> mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes: >If you're going to introduce state (locks) into NFS, why don't you >just make ETXTBSY work? If you get ETXTBSY working, why not generalize to file locks? Sam Paik