Re: fcntl: F_SETLEASE/F_RDLCK question

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 09:55:42AM -0400, William A.(Andy) Adamson wrote:
> i believe the current implementation is correct. opening a file for write 
> means that you can not have a read lease, caller included.

Why not?  Certainly, others will not be able to take out a read lease,
so there's very little point to only having a read lease, but I don't
see why we should deny it.

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