Quote of the week

[Posted March 31, 2005 by corbet]

In NFSv4 we often want to serialize asynchronous RPC calls with ordinary RPC calls (OPEN and CLOSE for instance). On paper, semaphores would appear to fit the bill, however there is no support for asynchronous I/O with semaphores. <rant>What's more, trying to add that type of support is an exercise in futility: there are currently 23 slightly different arch-dependent and over-optimized versions of semaphores (not counting the different versions of read/write semaphores).</rant>

--Trond Myklebust