linux-kernel - Re: F_SETOWN_EX and F

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Date:	Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:03:48 +0100
From:	Andreas Schwab <schwab@...hat.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc:	"Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@...esourcery.com>,
	linux-api@...r.kernel.org, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <onestero@...hat.com>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...glemail.com>,
	Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...glemail.com>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: F_SETOWN_EX and F_GETLK64 conflict

Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl> writes:

> On Sun, 2009-10-04 at 12:35 +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
>> In asm-generic/fcntl.h, F_SETOWN_EX and F_GETLK64 both have value 12, and 
>> F_GETOWN_EX and F_SETLK64 both have value 13.  I don't see how this is 
>> going to work correctly.  See 
>> <http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-ports/2009-10/msg00013.html>.
>
>
> Ugh,.. yeah, non obvious collision that.
>
> How about something like:

That really needs to be fixed before 2.6.32.

Andreas.

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