> However you are also changing the behaviour of F_SETLK for the case > where the user is trying to up/downgrade a set of existing READ/WRITE > locks. Again you may end up with a situation where some of the existing > locks get up/downgraded, and yet the lock request fails. Can you please point out the exact case when this happens? I've carefully reviewd the code, and found none. Thanks, 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