Re: lfs_lock

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost (David Holland) writes:

>Is there any reason lfs is using a global (rather than per-volume)
>lock? ad@ seems to have introduced it but as usual there's little in
>the way of reasoning or explanation.

After changing lfs to use the new locking primitives it was utterly
broken. So don't try to interpret much into the global lock. It's
just a slightly more local version of the big kernel lock.

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