Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:08:22 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [RFC, PATCH] locks: remove posix deadlock detection |
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> And if posix file locks are to be useful to threaded applications, then > we have to preserve the same no-false-positives requirement for them as > well.
It isn't useful to threaded applications. The specification requires this. Which is another reason for having an additional Linux (for now) flag to say "don't bother"
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