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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.arch
Subject: Re: Magic Cookies and File Systems (Religious FLAME)
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Date: Thu, 7-Mar-85 13:06:19 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar  7 13:06:19 1985
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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?
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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