flock possibly missing in SMB3 POSIX extensions?

[Aurélien Aptel]

Thanks for taking a look Jeremy.

Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org> writes:
>>Indeed, from man 2 flock:

Side node: I've sent a patch to the flock(2) man page to include current
behaviour of CIFS.

> So the plan would be once a file is opened with a POSIX
> context, emulate flock(2) by getting a byte-range lock
> on the whole file. For a POSIX context this is an
> advisory lock.

Ok. I will update the wiki.

> This matches what NFS does, and applications using
> flock are usually not also using fcntl locks.

Matching NFS is sounds good, less cases to think about for users.

> I'd rather not add "special" extra flags to the
> protocol that need extra logic to implement. The
> locking part is complex enough in SMB1/2/3, and
> as NFS shows it's possible to emulate using advisory
> byte-range locks anyway.

Ok

> Of course this doesn't help SMB2+ without UNIX
> extensions, but there are many POSIX things that
> won't work there anyway :-).

If we can make SMB2+UNIX work as well as NFS that will already be nice :)

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