On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 21:25 +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > 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. Consider something like fcntl(SETLK, 0, 100) fcntl(SETLK, 0, 100) fcntl(SETLK, 0, 100) - 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
