From: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Linux' NFS locking b0rken?
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 18:14:12 +0200
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On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 12:04:01PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> Sure we could. The question is whether or not there are any applications
> out there that set both flock and fcntl locks? They would break with
> such a scheme.

Don't they deserve to break?

I'd rather make flock work over NFS (and have one FAQ less to deal with),
than supporting patently broken apps.

We could create a mount option or even better a lockd module option to
make the old behavior selectable for those that need it.

Olaf
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