linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fcntl.2: note that mandatory locking is fully deprecated as of v5.15

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Message-ID: <3a303b30-2f42-e76f-f9f5-74c188512955@gmail.com>
Date:   Sat, 2 Oct 2021 19:41:27 +0200
From:   "Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" <alx.manpages@...il.com>
To:     Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>
Cc:     mtk.manpages@...il.com, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        linux-man@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fcntl.2: note that mandatory locking is fully deprecated
 as of v5.15

On 10/1/21 2:13 PM, Jeff Layton wrote:
> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>
> ---
>   man2/fcntl.2 | 4 ++--
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man2/fcntl.2 b/man2/fcntl.2
> index 7b5604e3a699..90e4c4a9f379 100644
> --- a/man2/fcntl.2
> +++ b/man2/fcntl.2
> @@ -619,8 +619,8 @@ Because of these bugs,
>   and the fact that the feature is believed to be little used,
>   since Linux 4.5, mandatory locking has been made an optional feature,
>   governed by a configuration option
> -.RB ( CONFIG_MANDATORY_FILE_LOCKING ).
> -This is an initial step toward removing this feature completely.
> +.RB ( CONFIG_MANDATORY_FILE_LOCKING ). This feature is no longer
> +supported at all in Linux 5.15 and above.

The same applies here.  Please use a newline after '.', as the previous 
text did.

Thanks,

Alex

>   .PP
>   By default, both traditional (process-associated) and open file description
>   record locks are advisory.
> 


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Alejandro Colomar
Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/