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From: Steve French <smfltc@us.ibm.com>
Subject: fcntl method for file_operations
Date: 25 Mar 2004 12:04:54 -0600
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> the NFS developers have submitted a patch which adds an fcntl() method
> to the file_operations structure.

This patch should be helpful to the cifs vfs for a different reason
(than the original NFS conflict between O_DIRECT/O_APPEND) , it will
allow a way to get directory change notification F_NOTIFY (and file open
notification, F_SETLEASE, perhaps) sent across the network (currenty
many fcntl calls are meaningful for local filesystems only).