Re: [PATCH v2] fcntl.2: note that mandatory locking is fully deprecated as of v5.15

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On 10/3/21 2:24 PM, Jeff Layton wrote:
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

Patch applied.

Thanks,

Alex

  man2/fcntl.2 | 2 +-
  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

v2: Use semantic newline per Alejandro's suggestion.

diff --git a/man2/fcntl.2 b/man2/fcntl.2
index 7b5604e3a699..4b53a0a2640b 100644
--- a/man2/fcntl.2
+++ b/man2/fcntl.2
@@ -620,7 +620,7 @@ and the fact that the feature is believed to be little used,
  since Linux 4.5, mandatory locking has been made an optional feature,
  governed by a configuration option
  .RB ( CONFIG_MANDATORY_FILE_LOCKING ).
-This is an initial step toward removing this feature completely.
+This feature is no longer supported at all in Linux 5.15 and above.
  .PP
  By default, both traditional (process-associated) and open file description
  record locks are advisory.



--
Alejandro Colomar
Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/



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