linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] please pull file-locking related changes for v3.20

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Message-ID: <20150226110046.4bd919ad@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:	Thu, 26 Feb 2015 11:00:46 +0000
From:	One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...chiereds.net>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] please pull file-locking related changes for v3.20

On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 11:13:39 -0800
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 11:08 AM, J. Bruce Fields <bfields@...ldses.org> wrote:
> >
> > I agree that it's weird, but I think it's what we're stuck with.
> 
> And if by "weird" you mean "flock is really not a well-defined or sane
> interface", I'll agree with you.
> 
> That said, I'm not at all sure about the "we're stuck with it". We can
> improve the semantics without anybody noticing, because it's not like
> anybody could *depend* on the weaker semantics - they needed
> particular races and timings to hit anyway.

The BSD implementation does not documented such a race, or indeed appear
to have one. That implies that nothing using flock should have this
problem.

Alan
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