[RFC PATCH 0/5] locks: implement "filp-private" (aka UNPOSIX) locks

[Volker Lendecke]

On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 11:53:30AM -0700, Frank Filz wrote:
> > I guess my main concern is that while I'm interested in adding interfaces
> that
> > make it _easier_ to implement fileservers, I'm not terribly interested in
> > adding interfaces that are _specific_ to implementing them.
> > 
> > Whatever interface we add needs to be generic enough to be useful to other
> > applications as well. The changes you're suggesting sound rather specific
> to a
> > particular use-case.
> 
> Sure, understood, though the Samba folks may have some input here also
> (though at least they have a process per connection still right? So the

Yes, correct. With the changes we have to make to support
SMB3 Multichannel this might change in the near future
tough.

Volker

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