Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 14:59:46 +0100
From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: "William A.(Andy) Adamson" <andros@citi.umich.edu>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
       Michael Kerrisk <mtk-lkml@gmx.net>, heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, matthew@wil.cx, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com,
       michael.kerrisk@gmx.net
Subject: Re: fcntl: F_SETLEASE/F_RDLCK question
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On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 09:55:42AM -0400, William A.(Andy) Adamson wrote:
> i believe the current implementation is correct. opening a file for write 
> means that you can not have a read lease, caller included.

Why not?  Certainly, others will not be able to take out a read lease,
so there's very little point to only having a read lease, but I don't
see why we should deny it.

-- 
"Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon 
the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those
conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse
to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince 
himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep 
he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception." -- Mark Twain
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