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SubjectRe: F_SETOWN_EX and F_GETLK64 conflict
Hi Peter,

On Sun, 04 Oct 2009 23:30:22 +0200 Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2009-10-04 at 12:35 +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> > In asm-generic/fcntl.h, F_SETOWN_EX and F_GETLK64 both have value 12, and
> > F_GETOWN_EX and F_SETLK64 both have value 13. I don't see how this is
> > going to work correctly. See
> > <http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-ports/2009-10/msg00013.html>.
>
>
> Ugh,.. yeah, non obvious collision that.

This is why we have F_LINUX_SPECIFIC_BASE and use it in
include/linux/fcntl.h ... it should be used as a base for any new fcntl
types since they don't require backward compatibility.

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell sfr@canb.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
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