Re: who is merlin.fit.vutbr.cz?

[Jeff Woods]

At 3/29/2004 03:32 PM +0200, Tomasz Rola wrote:
> BTW, if I understand correctly, to read something from the tree one 
> doesn't really need to lock it. Only writes should be locked.

Locking on reads prevents getting a copy of the tree with half of someone 
else's changes that were written during your read.  That gets more likely 
as the time it takes to read the entire tree increases.

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Jeff Woods <kazrak+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxx> 


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