Re: [PATCH] fcntl.2: note that mandatory locking is fully deprecated as of v5.15

Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-10-02T17:41:34Z

On 10/1/21 2:13 PM, Jeff Layton wrote:
> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
> ---
> man2/fcntl.2 | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/man2/fcntl.2 b/man2/fcntl.2
> index 7b5604e3a699..90e4c4a9f379 100644
> --- a/man2/fcntl.2
> +++ b/man2/fcntl.2
> @@ -619,8 +619,8 @@ Because of these bugs,
> 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.
> +.RB ( CONFIG_MANDATORY_FILE_LOCKING ). This feature is no longer
> +supported at all in Linux 5.15 and above.

The same applies here. Please use a newline after '.', as the previous
text did.

Thanks,

Alex

> .PP
> By default, both traditional (process-associated) and open file description
> record locks are advisory.
>

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Alejandro Colomar
Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/