fcntl cooperation with server side processes

David Collier-Brown davec-b at rogers.com
Wed Jul 21 22:56:54 GMT 2004


   Jeremy, if a script on the Unix side uses smbclient to
access the file, will Chris be able to ensure he's synced
correctly?

--dave

Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 10:27:45AM -0400, Chris Green wrote:
> 
>>Is there a way I can force the DENY_(ALL|WRITE) share mode to be turned into a
>>posit lock?  Both copy.exe and explorer show the same type of status
>>when copying a file into the share.
> 
> 
> Only by hacking Samba to do this.
> 
> 
>>Would this have some negative impact I'm missing?
> 
> 
> Yep, it would break mapping of Windows locks onto POSIX locks.
> 
> Jeremy.
> 



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