Re: Bindings and Locks (was: bind draft issues)

On Monday, March 3, 2003, at 01:50  PM, Clemm, Geoff wrote:
>
> I wouldn't want to tug any harder on that particular string (i.e.
> defining precisely what "protect" means), or else we'd end up needing
> to include most of the GULP (Grand Unified Locking Proposal) in the
> binding draft.

Given that I think that the binding draft needs to be more
explicit about the behavior of locks, what would be so awful
about including some of GULP?


> Since we currently only have definitions of the semantics of write
> locks, I try to avoid speculating on what semantics non-write locks
> may have some day.
>
> Cheers,
> Geoff

-brian
briank@xythos.com

Received on Tuesday, 4 March 2003 20:30:38 UTC