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

[Volker Lendecke]

On Wed, Feb 06, 2019 at 03:13:28PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields via samba-technical wrote:
> I could help write up or compile some sort of "introduction to NFS
> locking for SMB developers".  NFSv4 has byte-range locks, share locks,
> and delegations, you're interested in all three?

Very much so. For a start:

brlocks == brlocks (how similar are they to Posix in NFS?)
Share locks == share modes (i.e. per-open locks in different modes)
delegations == oplocks/leases (i.e. permission to cache contents)

Right?

It's the fine details that make the differences.

Volker

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