oplocks support on Solaris?

[Jeremy Allison]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 08:21:07PM +0200, jiri sasek - Sun Microsystems - Prague Czech Republic wrote:
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> Is not it set by default?  ...to "no" on platforms does not supporting  
> the oplocks in kernel?

Yes.

> It was exactly what I needed to know if is not there any option to  
> emulate the oplocks on fcntl locks for instance.

No, that's simply not possible. Think about the semantics of oplocks.

> Exactly I needed to know if there is no possibility (configure or patch  
> samba) to break the oplocks on clients when some other application than  
> samba modify the oplocked file?

How could that be done with only "standard" POSIX interfaces ? Kernel
support is needed.

Jeremy.