[AFS3-std] Proposal: Extension of RXAFS_SetLock to support LockUpgrade and LockDowngrade

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Mon, 27 Feb 2006 11:48:00 -0500 (EST)


On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:

> On Sun, 26 Feb 2006, Jeffrey Altman wrote:
>
>> For the reason I explained above.  Capability bits are cheap.  Try and
>> fallback is expensive.  Its not safe to cache the knowledge gained by
>> trying and failing.
>
> ... because?

well, when do you throw it away? i suppose on an initcbstate