POSIX client locking semantics.
Jeremy Allison
jra at samba.org
Wed Oct 19 22:49:11 GMT 2005
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 03:43:33PM -0700, conrad at mac.com wrote:
> Sounds good.
>
> If POSIX clients need to request special behavior like that, then do you still need a distinct posix get/set lock trans2? A CIFS_UNIX_POSIX_CAP could enable POSIX behavior (including the fcntl F_GETLK capability not present in smb otw.)
Yes I think we still need the POSIX get/set - if only to
make explicit that these semantics are different from the
Windows locking get/set.
Jeremy.
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