On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 07:40:59PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > From: Marc Eshel <eshel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> - unquoted > > Lock managers need to be able to cancel pending lock requests. In the case > where the exported filesystem manages its own locks, it's not sufficient just > to call posix_unblock_lock(); we need to let the filesystem know what's > happening too. > > We do this by adding a new fcntl lock command: FL_CANCELLK. Some day this > might also be made available to userspace applications that could benefit from > an asynchronous locking api. Should we really add more and more subcases to ->lock that probably don't share implementation code? I'd much prefer adding different operations. - 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
