Re: lock reclaims outside grace period

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On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 17:57 -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> Current lockd code appears to reject regular locks done during the grace
> period, but not reclaims that come outside of the grace period.
> 
> (That's based on inspecting the code--I haven't run tests.)
> 
> That seems like an obvious bug.  (We're not giving the client any way to
> determine whether conflicting locks might have been granted.)
> 
> Can we fix it, or is there a chance that people have been depending on
> this behavior?  (Maybe for failing over to an already-active server??)

Sorry, but I really don't care if anyone has been relying on it: that is
a _major_ bug and needs to be fixed ASAP.

  Trond

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