Pavel Shilovsky <piastryyy@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > If a flock is emulated on the server side with mandatory locks (which > is what we only have for SMB2 without POSIX extensions) then we should > maintain the same logic on the client. Otherwise you get different > behavior depending on the caching policies currently in effect on the > client side. You may consider testing with both modes when > leases/oplocks are on and off. Hm.. you're right, the write will fail on the server side without cache. I guess we should document current cifs behaviour in the flock man page. Cheers, -- Aurélien Aptel / SUSE Labs Samba Team GPG: 1839 CB5F 9F5B FB9B AA97 8C99 03C8 A49B 521B D5D3 SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, DE GF: Felix Imendörffer, Mary Higgins, Sri Rasiah HRB 247165 (AG München)