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SubjectRe: fcntl(F_GETLEASE) semantics??
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On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 03:15:45PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> The difference between inotify and leases is, as I said, that leases
> notify the lease holder synchronously. This allows the notified process
> to flush all the cached information _before_ the operation that
> triggered the lease notification is executed.

So you're talking about the kernel side.. I was talking about userspace
perspective on the syscall. It would be rather odd to let a syscall
block other applications involuntarily (and thus achieving synchronous
action in your meaning)..

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