[PATCH] Convert Samba to OFD locking.

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Thu May 19 15:44:10 UTC 2016


On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 10:44:02AM +0200, Stefan Metzmacher wrote:
> 
> I think we also need a runtime test similar to the robust mutex tests.
> 
> It's not uncommon to run samba in an lxc container these days and there
> it could
> happen that the kernel is older or newer than the distribution within
> the container.
> So we should handle both cases and only activate the feature at runtime
> if the current kernel supports it.

Nope. I strongly disagree with this. It's leading to unmaintainable
code over the long run.



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