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locks: add warning about mandatory locking races
authorJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:57:19 +0000 (11:57 -0400)
committerJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Tue, 9 Oct 2007 22:32:45 +0000 (18:32 -0400)
commit9efa68ed079af97f4e9477eadef567ffe64f7afc
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locks: add warning about mandatory locking races

The mandatory file locking implementation has long-standing races that
probably render it useless.  I know of no plans to fix them.  Till we
do, we should at least warn people.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Documentation/filesystems/mandatory-locking.txt diff | blob | history
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