Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751447AbWCaTbf (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Mar 2006 14:31:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751446AbWCaTbf (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Mar 2006 14:31:35 -0500 Received: from a1819.adsl.pool.eol.hu ([81.0.120.41]:27050 "EHLO dorka.pomaz.szeredi.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751442AbWCaTbe (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Mar 2006 14:31:34 -0500 To: trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no CC: akpm@osdl.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-reply-to: <1143830693.8085.19.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> (message from Trond Myklebust on Fri, 31 Mar 2006 13:44:53 -0500) Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] locks: don't unnecessarily fail posix lock operations References: <1143829641.8085.7.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <1143830693.8085.19.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> Message-Id: From: Miklos Szeredi Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 21:31:11 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 645 Lines: 16 > However you are also changing the behaviour of F_SETLK for the case > where the user is trying to up/downgrade a set of existing READ/WRITE > locks. Again you may end up with a situation where some of the existing > locks get up/downgraded, and yet the lock request fails. Can you please point out the exact case when this happens? I've carefully reviewd the code, and found none. Thanks, Miklos - 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/