Re: WARNING: smbfs and locking -- POSIX v. CIFS locking,and how DOS doesn't do CIFS locking (bad things man)

2003-02-10 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Bryan J. Smith wrote: > > NFS *does* support locking though. > > Yes, and it does it in a way that is far more "DOS-like" -- one write lock per file. there are still some differences between POSIX and DOS locks though: DOS has 6 kinds of locks: * COMPATIBILITY * DENY_NONE *

Re: WARNING: smbfs and locking -- POSIX v. CIFS locking, and how DOS doesn't do CIFS locking (bad things man)

2003-02-10 Thread Bryan J. Smith
Quoting Bart Oldeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > ok I browsed around a bit and looked at the kernel source, here's the > real answer. > Current (linux kernel 2.4.20) smbfs doesn't support locking at all. > you may look at > http://www.hojdpunkten.ac.se/054/samba > to see some experimental patches thoug