Re: hurd/tmpfs dir.c tmpfs.c

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 04:10:20PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Marco Gerards <marco@linuxrulez.nl> writes:
> 
> > I thought about an other solution for the problem, although it is a stange 
> > solution it might solve the problem. The thread in fatfs will deadlock 
> > because that thread already locked the node, what if the function that 
> > locks 
> > the node check if the node is locked by that thread and won't lock if it 
> > is? 
> > That will solve the problem and won't cause troubles for other diskfs 
> > translators.
> 
> I already suggested a solution, that I think works just fine...

Mmmh, as far as I can see, your last word on that was:

"I will think about how to make fatfs work, but I don't think this kind
 of "solution" is at all right."

Can you point to your suggested solution (I don't find anything in the
archive) or summarize it one more time?

Thanks,
Marcus