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Semi-preemptible locks for a distributed file system

Burns et al., 2000

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13437221591143508846
Author
Burns R
Rees R
Long D
Publication year
Publication venue
Conference Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference (Cat. No. 00CH37086)

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Many applications require the ability to obtain exclusive access to data, where an application is granted privileges to an object that cannot be preempted and limits the actions of other processes. Local file systems support exclusive access to files by maintaining …
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