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Re: Replace lockmgr for vnodes



On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 08:01:22AM +0200, Antti Kantee wrote:
> On Tue Jan 29 2008 at 03:48:57 +0000, David Holland wrote:
> > 
> > No, they don't. In the long run I'm intending to fix at least the
> > vnode locks, because IMO they should be interruptible, but that'll
> > likely be a slow process.
> 
> While this is theoretically a good idea, I am not sure it won't introduce
> more bugs than it works around.  Every lock call would demand an error
> path, and error paths are usually good at one thing: not being tested
> at all.  Increased code clutter is another downside.

Then we just need to add code coverage frameworks to puffs & friends. :-)

Take care,

Bill

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