Re: kNFS troubles (2.2.14pre15, Mandrake 7.0)

From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Date: Mon Jan 24 2000 - 14:41:02 EST


On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Olaf Kirch wrote:
>
> The reason knfsd refuses to touch a file with the mandatory locking bit
> on is that I wasn't sure how to deal with it. Blocking the server thread
> isn't an option.

I think we should just silently ignore mandatory locking over NFS. There's
no way to make it work anyway, so why bother? And failing such a file is
just too impolite..

Mandatory locking is a silly thing in the first place, imnsho.

                Linus

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