Re: Removing Mandatory Locks

[David Hildenbrand]

On 17.08.21 18:48, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 05:49:19PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> > > [0] we have mandatory locks, too. Sigh.
> >
> > I'd love to remove that.  Perhaps we could try persuading more of the
> > distros to disable the CONFIG option first.
>
> Yes.  The support is disabled in RHEL8.

kernel-ark also seems to not set it for Fedora and ARK

redhat/configs/common/generic/CONFIG_MANDATORY_FILE_LOCKING:# 
CONFIG_MANDATORY_FILE_LOCKING is not set


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Thanks,

David / dhildenb