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

[Volker Lendecke]

On Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 08:07:50AM +0100, Volker Lendecke via samba-technical wrote:
> 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

Crap, I of course meant "we don't know enough about NFS semantics"....  :-)

Sorry..

> 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
> 
> -- 
> SerNet GmbH, Bahnhofsallee 1b, 37081 Göttingen
> phone: 0551-370000-0, mailto:kontakt at sernet.de
> Gesch.F.: Dr. Johannes Loxen und Reinhild Jung
> AG Göttingen: HR-B 2816 - http://www.sernet.de
> 

-- 
SerNet GmbH, Bahnhofsallee 1b, 37081 Göttingen
phone: 0551-370000-0, mailto:kontakt at sernet.de
Gesch.F.: Dr. Johannes Loxen und Reinhild Jung
AG Göttingen: HR-B 2816 - http://www.sernet.de