On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 03:58:05PM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 03/21/2018 03:44 PM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> >>>
> >>>You're right that file locking on a character device like /dev/null is
> >>>not going to work as expected, but is it a case where fcntl() actually
> >>>fails, or is it worse where the
On 03/21/2018 03:44 PM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
You're right that file locking on a character device like /dev/null is
not going to work as expected, but is it a case where fcntl() actually
fails, or is it worse where the fcntl() claiming the locks "succeeds"
but doesn't do what we want? That is, wha