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From: Felix Janda <felix.janda@posteo.de>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] linux-user: include <linux/fcntl.h> for F_EXLCK and F_SHLCK
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 23:20:06 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161001032006.GA23216@nyan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA8HMcL6DB9sdc2VO0GPHXG=w6mztBg8dp3XkwGA_1__hQ@mail.gmail.com>

Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 30 September 2016 at 16:39, Felix Janda <felix.janda@posteo.de> wrote:
> > The F_EXLCK and F_SHLCK fcntl lock constants are obsolete synonyms for
> > F_WRLCK and F_RDLCK.
> 
> This seems unlikely, since on for instance Alpha F_EXLCK is
> 16, F_SHLCK is 32, F_RDLCK is 1 and F_WRLCK is 2, so they're
> all distinct:
> http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/fcntl.h#L52

Except for headers, the only use of F_EXLCK in the kernel is in
fs/cifs/file.c, where it has the same effect as F_WRLCK (except
for a debug message). Similarly for F_SHLCK and F_RDLCK.

Thanks,
Felix

  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-01  3:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-30 23:39 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] linux-user: include <linux/fcntl.h> for F_EXLCK and F_SHLCK Felix Janda
2016-10-01  2:38 ` Peter Maydell
2016-10-01  3:20   ` Felix Janda [this message]
2016-10-01 11:47   ` Felix Janda

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