On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 01:19:18PM -0600, Steve French wrote: > On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> We can make this feature (passing O_DENY* flags received from clients > >> to filesystem) can be turned on/off on Samba/NFS server to let this > >> particular use case work. In general, I think we really need to be > >> sure that nobody has a read access for files that a Windows process > >> opened with O_DENYREAD (because there can be important reasons for the > >> Windows process to do so). > > > > It should only affect windows emulated tasks, nothing else > > yes, but not just wine - there is probably a case for Samba server and > NFSv4 to optionally request such behafvior). Agreed, but: > Also we are likely to > see more cases where users want to run Samba over an NFS mount and > vice versa. I don't personally see the interest in this case. (And in fact I'd rather we removed the nfs export code for cifs; I seem to recall from the last discussion that filehandle lookups get ESTALE for inodes that have gone out of cache, and that that wasn't really fixable.) --b. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
