Avoid mandatory locks? Really? According to linux/Documentation/filesystems/mandatory-locking.txt

[Michael Blizek]

Hi!

On 19:14 Tue 29 Mar     , Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
...
> Naturally, wanting to get the details right, I did some browsing of
> documentation.  It seems the Stevens &
> Rago text that I'm using has a pretty good section on file locking in the
> Advanced I/O chapter, and it agreed
> with what I had expected well enough.  But I found a reference to this file
> mentioned above, and was
> shocked to find it began with a warning to avoid this feature.  It seemed it
> was like the BUGS section of
> the linux man page for the gets() function: do not use gets.  I gave up on
> this topic, but told my students
> about it.

You might find these pages interesting:
http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/locking.html
http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/locking2.html

	-Michi
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