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From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
To: "Michael Kerrisk" <mtk-lkml@gmx.net>
Cc: trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no, peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, matthew@wil.cx,
	michael.kerrisk@gmx.net
Subject: Re: fcntl(F GETLEASE) semantics??
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 00:10:04 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050812001004.68779bfc.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <994.1123766559@www9.gmx.net>

On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 15:22:39 +0200 (MEST) "Michael Kerrisk" <mtk-lkml@gmx.net> wrote:
>
> > A shared (i.e. read) lease means that there are currently no processes
> > that can change the data or metadata (including your own). 
>                                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> This is precisely the point of the problem.  Stephen 
> Rothwell, and Matthew Wilcox seem to be saying that
> the last bit is not the case.  

Sorry, Michael, I was not aware of why the change was made and I must
defer to Trond (for NFSv4) and the CIFS team on the appropriate semantics
here.  Matthew may have another opinion.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@canb.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-08-11 14:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-10 23:48 fcntl(F_GETLEASE) semantics?? Peter Chubb
2005-08-11  1:14 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-08-11  1:29   ` Peter Chubb
2005-08-11  8:14     ` fcntl(F GETLEASE) semantics?? Michael Kerrisk
2005-08-11 11:51       ` Trond Myklebust
2005-08-11 12:27         ` Michael Kerrisk
2005-08-11 12:49           ` Trond Myklebust
2005-08-11 13:22             ` Michael Kerrisk
2005-08-11 14:06               ` Trond Myklebust
2005-08-11 14:12                 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-08-11 14:20                 ` J. Bruce Fields
2005-08-11 14:42                   ` Michael Kerrisk
2005-08-11 14:40                 ` Michael Kerrisk
2005-08-11 15:06                   ` Trond Myklebust
2005-08-11 15:25                     ` Trond Myklebust
2005-08-11 14:10               ` Stephen Rothwell [this message]
2005-08-11 18:41 ` fcntl(F_GETLEASE) semantics?? Heikki Orsila
2005-08-11 18:56   ` Trond Myklebust
2005-08-11 19:02     ` Heikki Orsila
2005-08-11 19:15       ` Trond Myklebust
2005-08-11 19:23         ` Heikki Orsila
2005-08-11 19:31           ` Trond Myklebust

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