Re: [PATCH] Make POSIX locks compatible with the NPTL thread model

[Chris Wright]

* Trond Myklebust (trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> So what do we do? There is no way that we can keep the current rules, as
> they provide no consistent way to inform the underlying NFS or CIFS
> filesystem  when to test for lock->fl_pid, when to test for
> lock->fl_owner, and when to test for lock->fl_file.

No bright ideas here.  Each avenue I tried tonight was a dead end.

cheers,
-chris
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