Re: fcntl(F GETLEASE) semantics??

[Stephen Rothwell]

On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 15:22:39 +0200 (MEST) "Michael Kerrisk" <mtk-lkml@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > A shared (i.e. read) lease means that there are currently no processes
> > that can change the data or metadata (including your own). 
>                                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> This is precisely the point of the problem.  Stephen 
> Rothwell, and Matthew Wilcox seem to be saying that
> the last bit is not the case.  

Sorry, Michael, I was not aware of why the change was made and I must
defer to Trond (for NFSv4) and the CIFS team on the appropriate semantics
here.  Matthew may have another opinion.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
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