On 01/09/2014 06:19 AM, Jeff Layton wrote: > Due to some unfortunate history, POSIX locks have very strange and > unhelpful semantics. The thing that usually catches people by surprise > is that they are dropped whenever the process closes any file descriptor > associated with the inode. > [...] > +#define F_GETLKP 36 > +#define F_SETLKP 37 > +#define F_SETLKPW 38 > + > +#ifndef CONFIG_64BIT > +#ifndef F_GETLK64 > +#define F_GETLKP64 39 > +#define F_SETLKP64 40 > +#define F_SETLKPW64 41 > +#endif > +#endif > + Since there are no existing callers of these fcntls, can you get rid of the non-64-bit variants? The implementation might be a bit more of departure from current code, but it should make everything a lot cleaner and make it easier (aka automatic) for new architectures to support this feature. --Andy -- 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
