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Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs/locks.c: Fix posix locking for threaded tasks
To: willy@debian.org (Matthew Wilcox)
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 10:40:07 +0100 (BST)
Cc: torvald@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds),
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> SUS v3 does not offer any enlightenment.  But it seems reasonable that
> processes which share a files_struct should share locks.  After all,
> if one process closes the fd, they'll remove locks belonging to the
> other process.
> 
> Here's a patch generated against 2.4; it also applies to 2.5.
> Please apply.

This seems horribly inappropriate for 2.4 as it may break apps
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