From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
To: linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Cc: alx.manpages@gmail.com, mtk.manpages@gmail.com,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Subject: [PATCH v2] fcntl.2: note that mandatory locking is fully deprecated as of v5.15
Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2021 08:24:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211003122418.10765-1-jlayton@kernel.org> (raw)
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
---
man2/fcntl.2 | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
v2: Use semantic newline per Alejandro's suggestion.
diff --git a/man2/fcntl.2 b/man2/fcntl.2
index 7b5604e3a699..4b53a0a2640b 100644
--- a/man2/fcntl.2
+++ b/man2/fcntl.2
@@ -620,7 +620,7 @@ and the fact that the feature is believed to be little used,
since Linux 4.5, mandatory locking has been made an optional feature,
governed by a configuration option
.RB ( CONFIG_MANDATORY_FILE_LOCKING ).
-This is an initial step toward removing this feature completely.
+This feature is no longer supported at all in Linux 5.15 and above.
.PP
By default, both traditional (process-associated) and open file description
record locks are advisory.
--
2.31.1
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2021-10-03 12:24 Jeff Layton [this message]
2021-10-03 12:35 ` [PATCH v2] fcntl.2: note that mandatory locking is fully deprecated as of v5.15 Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
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