Re: [man-pages][PATCH v1] flock.2: add CIFS details

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Tom Talpey <tom@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> I don't fully understand your response. What does "knows about syscall
> from local apps" mean, from a practical perspective? That it never
> forwards any flock() call to the server? Or that it somehow caches
> the flock() results, and never checks if the server has a conflict
> from another client?

Yes that's what I'm trying to say. Locking never goes on the
wire. Server is not aware of locking, and thus neither are any other
clients.

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