kernel support for open share modes

[Tim Potter]

On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 18:59 -0500, Michael B Allen wrote:
> William A.(Andy) Adamson said:
> > we are considering providing the kernel NFSv4 daemon with a file system
> > interface for OPEN that could be used instead of the POSIX struct
> > file_operations->open and which would include deny share bits.
> 
> This just made me realize my suggestion about modifying Samba to coordiate
> access checks with the NFS lock daemon is by itself not sufficient to
> eliminate races with external applications. Your modification would also
> be necessary. Then the NFS lock daemon could effectively be Samba's lock
> manager as well and provide proper semantics within the kernel for access
> checks.

I am pretty sure that under Linux there is coordination within the
kernel between NFS locks and SMB oplocks so that there can be no data
corruption.  Take a look at the various locktest programs in the
(samba3) torture testsuite.


Tim.
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