[SCM] Samba Shared Repository - branch master updated

Kai Blin kai at samba.org
Wed Dec 1 02:38:01 MST 2010


The branch, master has been updated
       via  6e27ff3 s3 docs: Reword posix locking text to answer a common question
      from  bf9c3ee s3: Attempt to please autobuild

http://gitweb.samba.org/?p=samba.git;a=shortlog;h=master


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commit 6e27ff36b6b112d3b9eb6e4955b717190ab9fb0d
Author: Kai Blin <kai at samba.org>
Date:   Tue Nov 30 15:58:05 2010 +0100

    s3 docs: Reword posix locking text to answer a common question
    
    vl recently pointed me to a valid reason to use posix locking = no.
    Fix the smb.conf manpage to explain this reason, as this question
    comes up on the samba mailing list from time to time as well.
    
    Autobuild-User: Kai Blin <kai at samba.org>
    Autobuild-Date: Wed Dec  1 10:37:30 CET 2010 on sn-devel-104

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Summary of changes:
 docs-xml/smbdotconf/locking/posixlocking.xml |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)


Changeset truncated at 500 lines:

diff --git a/docs-xml/smbdotconf/locking/posixlocking.xml b/docs-xml/smbdotconf/locking/posixlocking.xml
index e5a89f5..25476f0 100644
--- a/docs-xml/smbdotconf/locking/posixlocking.xml
+++ b/docs-xml/smbdotconf/locking/posixlocking.xml
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@
 	daemon maintains an database of file locks obtained by SMB clients. The default behavior is 
 	to map this internal database to POSIX locks. This means that file locks obtained by SMB clients are 
 	consistent with those seen by POSIX compliant applications accessing the files via a non-SMB 
-	method (e.g. NFS or local file access). You should never need to disable this parameter.
+	method (e.g. NFS or local file access). It is very unlikely that you need to set this parameter
+	to "no", unless you are sharing from an NFS mount, which is not a good idea in the first place.
 	</para>
 </description>
 <value type="default">yes</value>


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