Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:41:02 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: kNFS troubles (2.2.14pre15, Mandrake 7.0) |
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On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Olaf Kirch wrote: > > The reason knfsd refuses to touch a file with the mandatory locking bit > on is that I wasn't sure how to deal with it. Blocking the server thread > isn't an option.
I think we should just silently ignore mandatory locking over NFS. There's no way to make it work anyway, so why bother? And failing such a file is just too impolite..
Mandatory locking is a silly thing in the first place, imnsho.
Linus
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