Hi Pavel, On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:52:09 +0400 Pavel Shilovsky <[email protected]> wrote: > > This patchset adds support of O_DENY* flags for Linux fs layer. These flags > can be used by any application that needs share reservations to organize a > file access. VFS already has some sort of this capability - now it's done > through flock/LOCK_MAND mechanis, but that approach is non-atomic. This > patchset build new capabilities on top of the existing one but doesn't bring > any changes into the flock call semantic.
This has probably been discussed, but is Linux's leases implementation not sufficient? Just wondering. -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell [email protected]
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