Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | (david parsons) | Subject | [PATCH] putting old-style lock handling back into 2.2.10 | Date | 4 Jul 1999 16:08:59 -0700 |
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I noticed (when it made one of my test machines blow up and die) that 2.2 doesn't support the old-style F_EXLCK locking anymore. This little patch (against 2.2.10) puts that locking back, so that people using a.out gdbm programs won't have them blow up on them.
____ david parsons \bi/ Backwards compatability is good. \/
--- linux-2.2.10-orig/fs/locks.c Tue May 11 08:52:14 1999 +++ linux-2.2.10/fs/locks.c Sun Jul 4 15:48:15 1999 @@ -441,10 +441,10 @@ current->pid, current->comm); } } +#endif if (!(filp->f_mode & 3)) goto out_putf; break; -#endif default: error = -EINVAL; goto out_putf; @@ -648,11 +648,22 @@ fl->fl_flags = FL_POSIX; + /* + * remap old-style locks into the locking method de jour + */ switch (l->l_type) { case F_RDLCK: case F_WRLCK: case F_UNLCK: fl->fl_type = l->l_type; + break; + case F_SHLCK : + fl->fl_type = F_RDLCK; + /*fl->fl_flags |= F_BROKEN;*/ + break; + case F_EXLCK : + fl->fl_type = F_WRLCK; + /*fl->fl_flags |= F_BROKEN;*/ break; default: return (0); - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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