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Rudolf Polzer wrote: | What exactly does the POSIX locking option do? | | I know what it does NOT do: flock() the files a Windows machine has | locked. When for example a file is locked on server side (Linux, I | tried all three Debian samba releases from stable, testing and | unstable), notepad on Windows still opens it. If it however is | locked by a Windows application on another computer, notepad | refuses. | | Does "posix locking" perhaps map SMB locks to something else than | flock()?
yeah. It maps them onto posix byte range locks (e.g. fcntl() )
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