[RFC][PATCH] locks: Allow disabling mandatory locking at compile time

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Wed Nov 11 22:46:35 UTC 2015


On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 05:44:01PM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote:
> Windows BRLs are mandatory but they have totally different semantics.
> 
> I think there is little reason to keep POSIX mandatory locks for
> windows emulation purposes. I'm pretty sure Samba doesn't rely on them,
> for instance, given that you have to use a funky mode bit combo to
> enable them.

Nope. We emulate Windows mandatory locks on top of POSIX advisory
locks. We don't use POSIX mandatory locks at all.


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