On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 11:08 AM, J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I agree that it's weird, but I think it's what we're stuck with. And if by "weird" you mean "flock is really not a well-defined or sane interface", I'll agree with you. That said, I'm not at all sure about the "we're stuck with it". We can improve the semantics without anybody noticing, because it's not like anybody could *depend* on the weaker semantics - they needed particular races and timings to hit anyway. Linus -- 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