On Oct 11, 2013, at 19:49, Jeremy Allison <j...@samba.org> wrote: > On Fri, 11 Oct 2013 15:36:43 -0600 Andreas Dilger <adil...@dilger.ca> wrote: >>> >>> At this point, my main questions are: >>> >>> 1) does this look useful, particularly for fileserver implementors? > > Yes from the Samba perspective. We'll have to keep the old > code around for compatibility with non-Linux OS'es, but this > will allow Linux Samba to short-circuit a bunch of logic > we have to get around the insane POSIX locking semantics > on close. > > Jeremy.
>From the peanut gallery, IIRC from college a few years back, wasn't the POSIX >file locking stuff passed by all parties because they intended to do their own >thing regardless of the standard? The reason that all locks are blown on a >release is mostly because there were already implementations and no one wanted >to push the issue, or am I misunderstanding/forgetting the history of file >locks in POSIX?-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
