[Samba] posix locking - what does it do?

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Rudolf Polzer wrote:
| What exactly does the POSIX locking option do?
|
| I know what it does NOT do: flock() the files a Windows machine has
| locked. When for example a file is locked on server side (Linux,  I
| tried all three Debian samba releases from stable, testing and
| unstable), notepad on Windows still opens it. If it however is
| locked by a Windows application on another computer, notepad
| refuses.
|
| Does "posix locking" perhaps map SMB locks to something else than
| flock()?

yeah.  It maps them onto posix byte range locks
(e.g. fcntl() )




cheers, jerry
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