[PATCH] flock() files even with a permissive share mode.

Volker Lendecke Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE
Sat Feb 2 17:26:17 UTC 2019


On Fri, Feb 01, 2019 at 08:38:04PM -0500, Matthew Stickney via samba-technical wrote:
> I've only just begun poking around the samba code, so apologies if I've
> missed something obvious (or if this is the wrong list for this sort of
> question).

This is exactly right. The problem with this API is -- nobody cares.
You are the first one in MANY years who has taken a look.

Whenever I have the chance to meet NFS people, I literally beg for
their precious time to discuss interoperable locking. We need to at
least talk about the intended semantics: What does a share mode in SMB
mean for NFS share reservations, and how do we properly communicate
that? What about mandatory vs advisory? What about leases/oplocks vs
delegations? What is a good break mechanism? We need to sort this out
in user space before we can even start approaching the kernel.

The NFS people I met do not see this as a priority, nobody ever could
allocate time. Locking seems to be a topic nobody outside the SMB
world ever looks at. We need to keep the VFS call in, because I know
of at least one vendor who has this implemented in his proprietary
file system. For the rest -- I don't think it matters if we keep it
in.

Volker

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