[linux-cifs-client] Re: [PATCH 2/3] cifs: tighten up default file_mode/dir_mode

[Steve French]

> "When mounting a server w/o unix extensions, do we want the client
> kernel to default to enforcing mandatory locking between processes on
> the same machine?"

Yes - I agree we don't want to do enforce mandatory locking on the client,
the server already does this as long as we get the file
handle and pid right.  It is likely that the kernel's mandatory
locking behavior (on the client kernel) wouldn't match windows
semantics (on the server) anyway



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Thanks,

Steve