Re: [RFC, PATCH] locks: remove posix deadlock detection

> And if posix file locks are to be useful to threaded applications, then
> we have to preserve the same no-false-positives requirement for them as
> well.

It isn't useful to threaded applications. The specification requires
this. Which is another reason for having an additional Linux (for now)
flag to say "don't bother"

Alan
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