Database software for UNIX systems

[Ed Gould]

>> ...  Ingres also requires mods to the kernel... 
>
>Actually, Ingres has a locking pseuodo device driver. I do not think that
>adding a "device" driver is equivalent to "mods to the kernel" since you
>are not changing kernel source code.

There are several versions of Ingres.  The current commercial version
from RTI does not require kernel mods, although older versions did.
The current mechanism just adds a driver.  Research Ingres, running
on 4.2/4.3BSD uses a user-level lock manager that communicates with
the database software via a socket.

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