Re: [PATCH] A little wad of patches for 2.3.10

david parsons (o.r.c@p.e.l.l.p.o.r.t.l.a.n.d.o.r.u.s)
27 Jul 1999 09:43:18 -0700

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In article <linux.kernel.19990727150605.R25966@mencheca.ch.genedata.com>,
Matthew Wilcox <Matthew.Wilcox@genedata.com> wrote:
>On Wed, Jul 21, 1999 at 11:53:46PM -0700, david parsons wrote:
>> * Puts back old-style fcntl locking, so that old a.out gdbm libraries
>> won't explode and die.
>
>I thought this was taken out because it was a broken design and could
>lead to data corruption?

Well, I'm not so sure about that, unless doing new-style flocking
will also cause data corruption. Basically, all the patch with
the locks does is to map SHLCK -> RDLCK and EXLCK -> WRLCK.

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