[OpenAFS-devel] Re: on sockets and devices in AFS

[Derrick Brashear]

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 5:02 AM, Rune <u-openafsdev-t07O@aetey.se> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 10:23:35AM +0200, Derrick Brashear wrote:
>> > "persistent-state-with-lock-free-asynchronous-updates"-library would
>> > be written and used by the applications, implementing transaction-like
>> > updates with automated merges - taking into account the semantics of
>> > the data to be merged. Alas, such a library does not yet exist (or at
>> > least apparently is not being used :)
>>
>> I wrote one in perl (4!) many years ago. no one seemed overly interested in the concept. There is room in OpenAFS several places for this sort of 'decision engine'
>
> The application writers most probably assume that "usable by 90% of the
> audience is enough" and quite probably it is still the majority of the
> users who have local home directories... :-/
>
> The above builds up a regretful hinder for deployment of global ones :(
>
> I would like to look at your code (if it is OSS).


/afs/dementia.org/web/anonftp/pub/mergefiles/

it's probably GPL, given when it dates from. might be BSD. it's free
-- 
Derrick