Re: [PATCH] fs/locks.c: Fix posix locking for threaded tasks

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Wed Jun 12 2002 - 04:40:07 EST


> SUS v3 does not offer any enlightenment. But it seems reasonable that
> processes which share a files_struct should share locks. After all,
> if one process closes the fd, they'll remove locks belonging to the
> other process.
>
> Here's a patch generated against 2.4; it also applies to 2.5.
> Please apply.

This seems horribly inappropriate for 2.4 as it may break apps
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