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From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: "William A.(Andy) Adamson" <andros@citi.umich.edu>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
	Michael Kerrisk <mtk-lkml@gmx.net>,
	heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	matthew@wil.cx, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, michael.kerrisk@gmx.net
Subject: Re: fcntl: F_SETLEASE/F_RDLCK question
Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 14:59:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050503135946.GC19678@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050503135542.BFBC61BB0E@citi.umich.edu>

On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 09:55:42AM -0400, William A.(Andy) Adamson wrote:
> i believe the current implementation is correct. opening a file for write 
> means that you can not have a read lease, caller included.

Why not?  Certainly, others will not be able to take out a read lease,
so there's very little point to only having a read lease, but I don't
see why we should deny it.

-- 
"Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon 
the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those
conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse
to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince 
himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep 
he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception." -- Mark Twain

  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-03 13:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-02  9:15 Heiko Carstens
2005-05-02 11:04 ` Stephen Rothwell
2005-05-02 12:10   ` Heiko Carstens
2005-05-03 10:00   ` Michael Kerrisk
2005-05-03 13:14     ` Stephen Rothwell
2005-05-03 13:55       ` William A.(Andy) Adamson
2005-05-03 13:59         ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2005-05-03 14:15           ` William A.(Andy) Adamson
2005-05-03 14:50             ` Michael Kerrisk
2005-05-03 16:21               ` William A.(Andy) Adamson
2005-05-03 16:36                 ` J. Bruce Fields
2005-05-31 14:53       ` Michael Kerrisk
2005-05-31 15:23         ` J. Bruce Fields
2005-05-31 15:41           ` Michael Kerrisk
2005-05-31 15:34       ` File leases and fork() Michael Kerrisk

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