On Fri 2020-01-24 10:28:15, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > From: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> > > [ Upstream commit 68ce801ffd82e72d5005ab5458e8b9e59f24d9cc ] > > Fix AFS file locking to allow fine grained locks as some applications, such > as firefox, won't work if they can't take such locks on certain state files > - thereby preventing the use of kAFS to distribute a home directory. > > Note that this cannot be made completely functional as the protocol only > has provision for whole-file locks, so there exists the possibility Is this suitable for -stable? "AFS does not support fine-grained locks" is fine and easy to understand. "AFS pretends it supports locks and hopes for the best for benefit of firefox"... may be good idea for mainline, but I don't think it matches -stable criteria. Best regards, Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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