> Look at the tty code - you need to drop the inode write semaphore,
> then all will work the way you wish.
How do you do this for updating an inode -- the best I can see is to
shrink the amount of time any lock is held, presumably you can get
this down to a few cycles (ie. write data, lock, updated fields,
unlock -- assuming we don't every synchronously update inodes?)
-cw
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