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

Volker Lendecke Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE
Tue Feb 5 07:07:50 UTC 2019


On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 06:52:17PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> Mainly what I need from SMB folks is really precise documentation of the
> semantics expected from the SMB side and/or some tests for those
> semantics.
> 
> I'm especially interested in lease/delegation work (as I have work to do
> in that area anyway).

That's a problem unfortunately. We can't really propose an API,
because we don't know enough about SMB semantics. And we can't propose
anythying to the kernel, as it needs to be perfect from day 1. We need
to play with this in user space before we can approach you guys, so
this means we need cooperation by Ganesha. The kernel is very hostile
to anything that comes from the SMB world (see richacls), so we need a
100% water-proof story with two external users before approaching you
with a proposal.

Volker

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