(Illustration by Gaich Muramatsu)
Peter/Phil: Given all that, it sounds like it would be very nice to make open-rw/read/close not invoke store. Having a new close upcall sounds fine, but one needs to keep versions in sync anyway - not sure if there is a call to the kernel to tell it that using the new upcall is permissible. I was partway through entering a bug in Netscape and hit M-q to fill the paragraph... It looks like the bug database has lots of old stuff and nothing recent, so I wasn't motivated to retype things, barring assurances that the db is used. The real problem is with weakly connected or disconnected clients, where this turns a read-read 'conflict' into a real conflict. Now, if broken Windows sw is going to actually write spuriously when no semantic change was requested, we can't help that, but at least it is a step in the right direction.Received on 2002-06-12 10:59:42