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
next prev parent 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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