[Samba] posix locking - what does it do?

Rudolf Polzer smb-bm at durchnull.de
Tue Jun 22 09:17:50 GMT 2004


What exactly does the POSIX locking option do?

I know what it does NOT do: flock() the files a Windows machine has
locked. When for example a file is locked on server side (Linux,  I
tried all three Debian samba releases from stable, testing and
unstable), notepad on Windows still opens it. If it however is locked by
a Windows application on another computer, notepad refuses.

Does "posix locking" perhaps map SMB locks to something else than
flock()?


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