> NACK. > > This changes the behaviour of F_UNLCK. Currently, if the allocation > fails, the inode locking state remains unchanged. With your change, an > unlock request may end up unlocking part of the inode, but not the rest. No, look more closer. There are two cases: - some locks are partially or completely removed - the unlock splits an existing lock in two. In the first case no new locks are needed. In the second, no locks are modified prior to the check. Miklos - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html