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Re: Comment on glibc2.28: Re: [PATCH glibc] Add file record locking supp


From: Samuel Thibault
Subject: Re: Comment on glibc2.28: Re: [PATCH glibc] Add file record locking support
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2018 17:48:51 +0100
User-agent: NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2)

Svante Signell, le lun. 03 déc. 2018 16:57:03 +0100, a ecrit:
> I commented out the following three debian patches and updated my patch to
> fcntl.c.
> #hurd-i386/git-fcntl64.diff
> #hurd-i386/git-lockf-0.diff
> #hurd-i386/tg-WRLCK-upgrade.diff
> hurd-i386/fcntl.diff

Ok, then please say that, instead of quoting a mail talking about
another part of the changes, thus only bringing confusion.

> And in the first patch we have the stuff below (that I did not have in the 
> patch
> for fcntl.c). Added now.

Ok.

> > - just keep flock as it is for now, make use fcntl use the RPC with
> >   rendezvous==NULL, and still make it per-process. tdb will be happy.
> 
> Unfortunately tdb will not be happy, it does use fork a lot and fork should 
> not
> inherit locks, see
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2015-01/msg00092.html
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2015-01/msg00095.html
> 
> Never mind for now.

Ok, that will indeed do for a first commit, which does not actually
bring regression compared to what we currently have (only full-file
per-open locking).

Samuel



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