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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