Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754689Ab3JKX4Y (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Oct 2013 19:56:24 -0400 Received: from fn.samba.org ([216.83.154.106]:59440 "EHLO mail.samba.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753042Ab3JKX4V (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Oct 2013 19:56:21 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 414 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri, 11 Oct 2013 19:56:21 EDT Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 16:49:23 -0700 From: Jeremy Allison To: Jeff Layton Cc: Andreas Dilger , "linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Devel" , Ganesha NFS List , samba-technical@lists.samba.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] locks: implement "filp-private" (aka UNPOSIX) locks Message-ID: <20131011234923.GD8688@samba2> Reply-To: Jeremy Allison References: <1381494322-2426-1-git-send-email-jlayton@redhat.com> <20131011200756.GB22160@fieldses.org> <20131011192118.483e436f@tlielax.poochiereds.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20131011192118.483e436f@tlielax.poochiereds.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 700 Lines: 18 On Fri, 11 Oct 2013 15:36:43 -0600 Andreas Dilger wrote: > > > > At this point, my main questions are: > > > > 1) does this look useful, particularly for fileserver implementors? Yes from the Samba perspective. We'll have to keep the old code around for compatibility with non-Linux OS'es, but this will allow Linux Samba to short-circuit a bunch of logic we have to get around the insane POSIX locking semantics on close. Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/