Re: fcntl behaviour different in 2.1.129

Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Sun, 13 Dec 1998 14:29:42 +0000

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On Sat, Dec 12, 1998 at 06:10:39PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > 2.0 did all NFS locking local, in 2.1 F_SETLK tries remote locking. If you
> > only want local locking convert to lockf().
>
> Its looking like having 2.2 support a "lock=local" option on NFS to turn
> off these 'problems' might be sensible ?

We have one already: "nolock" (specific to NFS).
Really it means local locking only.

-- Jamie

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