From: "Aurélien Aptel" <aaptel@suse.com>
To: Tom Talpey <tom@talpey.com>,
linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-man@vger.kernel.org, mtk.manpages@gmail.com
Cc: smfrench@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [man-pages][PATCH v1] flock.2: add CIFS details
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2021 17:57:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zgzkw4ya.fsf@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f1beb7c8-1f73-0ea7-7052-13b6516b5f6c@talpey.com>
Tom Talpey <tom@talpey.com> writes:
> I don't fully understand your response. What does "knows about syscall
> from local apps" mean, from a practical perspective? That it never
> forwards any flock() call to the server? Or that it somehow caches
> the flock() results, and never checks if the server has a conflict
> from another client?
Yes that's what I'm trying to say. Locking never goes on the
wire. Server is not aware of locking, and thus neither are any other
clients.
Cheers,
--
Aurélien Aptel / SUSE Labs Samba Team
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-04 0:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-02 15:48 [man-pages][PATCH v1] flock.2: add CIFS details Aurélien Aptel
2021-03-03 15:37 ` Tom Talpey
2021-03-03 16:28 ` Aurélien Aptel
2021-03-03 16:37 ` [PATCH v2] " Aurélien Aptel
2021-03-03 18:08 ` Tom Talpey
2021-03-03 19:03 ` [PATCH v3] " Aurélien Aptel
2021-03-03 20:23 ` Tom Talpey
2021-03-04 9:48 ` Aurélien Aptel
2021-03-04 9:50 ` [PATCH v4] " Aurélien Aptel
2021-03-10 19:07 ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-03-11 10:11 ` Aurélien Aptel
2021-03-11 16:21 ` Tom Talpey
2021-03-11 17:13 ` Aurélien Aptel
2021-03-11 17:29 ` Tom Talpey
2021-03-11 17:45 ` Aurélien Aptel
2021-03-11 20:42 ` Tom Talpey
2021-03-11 22:39 ` Aurélien Aptel
2021-03-15 18:05 ` Pavel Shilovsky
2021-03-16 10:42 ` Aurélien Aptel
2021-03-16 17:39 ` Pavel Shilovsky
2021-03-16 19:42 ` Tom Talpey
2021-03-16 23:04 ` Pavel Shilovsky
2021-03-22 14:30 ` [PATCH v5] " Aurélien Aptel
2021-04-09 12:13 ` Aurélien Aptel
2021-04-11 19:12 ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-03-11 18:01 ` [PATCH v4] " Matthew Wilcox
2021-03-03 16:48 ` [man-pages][PATCH v1] " Tom Talpey
2021-03-03 16:57 ` Aurélien Aptel [this message]
2021-03-03 17:41 ` Tom Talpey
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