Re: [PATCH 2/4] locks: don't unnecessarily fail posix lockoperations

From: Miklos Szeredi
Date: Fri Mar 31 2006 - 14:28:33 EST


> However you are also changing the behaviour of F_SETLK for the case
> where the user is trying to up/downgrade a set of existing READ/WRITE
> locks. Again you may end up with a situation where some of the existing
> locks get up/downgraded, and yet the lock request fails.

Can you please point out the exact case when this happens?

I've carefully reviewd the code, and found none.

Thanks,
Miklos
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