Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.arch Subject: Re: Magic Cookies and File Systems (Religious FLAME) Message-ID: <5185@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Mar-85 13:06:19 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.5185 Posted: Thu Mar 7 13:06:19 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Mar-85 13:06:19 EST References: <917@sjuvax.UUCP> <538@rlgvax.UUCP> <190@u1100s.UUCP>, <1078@watdcsu.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 7 Nobody ever said that locks should necessarily be *implemented* using the file system. The point is that they should *look* like part of the file system to the customer. We have a perfectly good name->resource mapping mechanism already in existence; why invent another? -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry