On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 11:13:39 -0800 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. The BSD implementation does not documented such a race, or indeed appear to have one. That implies that nothing using flock should have this problem. Alan -- 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
