From 226eebd713f994f576c30ddb72a88181cbbc7d1d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Pfaff Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 20:08:06 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Clarify directive not to modify file system. Thanks to "JaJ" for the question. --- doc/userprog.texi | 11 ++++++++--- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/userprog.texi b/doc/userprog.texi index 5918612..c0115c1 100644 --- a/doc/userprog.texi +++ b/doc/userprog.texi @@ -132,8 +132,13 @@ the focus of this project is not on the file system code, so we have provided a simple file system in the @file{filesys} directory. You will want to look over the @file{filesys.h} and @file{file.h} interfaces to understand how to use the file system, and especially -its many limitations. @strong{You should not modify the file system -code for this project.} Proper use of the file system routines now +its many limitations. + +There is no need to modify the file system code for this project, and so +we recommend that you do not. Working on the file system is likely to +distract you from this project's focus. + +Proper use of the file system routines now will make life much easier for project 4, when you improve the file system implementation. Until then, you will have to put up with the following limitations: @@ -141,7 +146,7 @@ following limitations: @itemize @bullet @item No synchronization. Concurrent accesses will interfere with one -another. You should use a global lock to ensure that only one process at a +another. You should use a lock to ensure that only one process at a time is executing file system code. @item -- 2.30.2