On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 03:42:30PM -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Yes, but it needn't be as complex as putting locking everywhere. In the
> case where there was no shared credential change, the fast path is still
> pretty fast.
Don't you still need to lock/make use of credential/unlock? Otherwise you
have a race condition on SMP boxes.
mrc
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