Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Oct 2013 16:49:23 -0700 | From | Jeremy Allison <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] locks: implement "filp-private" (aka UNPOSIX) locks |
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On Fri, 11 Oct 2013 15:36:43 -0600 Andreas Dilger <adilger@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.
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