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SubjectRe: Question about leases
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 02:35:17PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > As far as I figured out process holding a lease is notified when other
> > process opens the leased file. But I am still not sure how the leases
> > should then be released and how the process knows which lease was broken
> > (struct siginfo does not seem to have union member for that case).
>
> To release a lease, you use fcntl(fd, F_SETLEASE, F_UNLCK). The file
> descriptor of the file that the lease is on is returned in the
> siginfo structure.

One more question. Does the siginfo contain information weather is's
read or write that the other process attempted? And does it contain the
operation type for directory notifications?

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