I don't know much (anything) about the advisory locking code, but was puzzled to see the following at the bottom of the flock() system call code in kern_descrip.c:
if (uap->how & LOCK_EX) lf.l_type = F_WRLCK; else if (uap->how & LOCK_SH) lf.l_type = F_RDLCK; else { error = EBADF; goto done2; } FILE_LOCK(fp); fp->f_flag |= FHASLOCK; FILE_UNLOCK(fp); error = VOP_ADVLOCK(vp, (caddr_t)fp, F_SETLK, &lf, (uap->how & LOCK_NB) ? F_FLOCK : F_FLOCK | F_WAIT); done2: fdrop(fp, td); mtx_unlock(&Giant); return (error); } My reading of that is that the fp->f_flag field will be unconditionally updated to include FHASLOCK, even if VOP_ADVLOCK() returns an error. Is this correct? Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project [EMAIL PROTECTED] NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message