Re: [NFS client] NFS locks not released on abnormal process termination

[Trond Myklebust]

>>>>> " " == Philippe Troin <phil@xxxxxxxx> writes:

     > From my reading of the patch, it supersedes the old patch, and
     > is only
     > necessary on the client. Is also does not compile :-)

Yeah, I admit I didn't test it out...

     > Here's an updated patch which does compile.

Thanks.

     > I am still running tests, but so far it looks good (that is all
     > locks are freed when a process with locks running on a NFS
     > client is killed).

Good...

There are still 2 other issues with the generic POSIX locking code.
Both issues have to do with CLONE_VM and have been raised on
linux-kernel & linux-fsdevel. Unfortunately they met with no response,
so I'm unable to pursue...

Cheers,
  Trond
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