On 2018-08-22 15:35:16 +0200, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: > Vincent Lefevre wrote in <20180821230229.ga16...@zira.vinc17.org>: > |* It is not clear whether this has ever been usuful (nothing in > | comment or in the commit log). > > According to some statement on a list you are also subscribed to > this NFS problem has been fixed "at the early 90s".
This is quite surprising. Even the discussion at https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/10078625/atomic-locking-over-NFS-with-link-2-stat-2.html in 1998 doesn't mention this problem (it just mentions the case where the link(2) call failed though the link was created). Several old documents say not to use the return value of the link(2) call, but do not say whether this is only due to the case where link(2) fails but the link was created, or the other way round. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
