Re: [PATCH v2] fcntl.2: note that mandatory locking is fully deprecated as of v5.15

[Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)]

On 10/3/21 2:24 PM, Jeff Layton wrote:
> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Patch applied.

Thanks,

Alex

>   man2/fcntl.2 | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> v2: Use semantic newline per Alejandro's suggestion.
>
> diff --git a/man2/fcntl.2 b/man2/fcntl.2
> index 7b5604e3a699..4b53a0a2640b 100644
> --- a/man2/fcntl.2
> +++ b/man2/fcntl.2
> @@ -620,7 +620,7 @@ and the fact that the feature is believed to be little used,
>   since Linux 4.5, mandatory locking has been made an optional feature,
>   governed by a configuration option
>   .RB ( CONFIG_MANDATORY_FILE_LOCKING ).
> -This is an initial step toward removing this feature completely.
> +This feature is no longer supported at all in Linux 5.15 and above.
>   .PP
>   By default, both traditional (process-associated) and open file description
>   record locks are advisory.


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