Re: fcntl: F_SETLEASE/F_RDLCK question

["William A.(Andy) Adamson" <andros@citi.umich.edu>]

> > > On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 09:55:42AM -0400, William A.(Andy) Adamson
> > > wrote:
> > > > i believe the current implementation is correct. opening a file for
> > > > write 
> > > > means that you can not have a read lease, caller included.
> > > 
> > > Why not?  Certainly, others will not be able to take out a read lease,
> > > so there's very little point to only having a read lease, but I don't
> > > see why we should deny it.
> > > 
> > 
> > by definition: a read lease means there are no writers. so, the question
> > is 
> > not 'why not', the question is why? why hand out a read lease to an open
> > for write?
> 
> Andy,
> 
> Look more closely at my earlier table. 
> 
> Regardless of what the answer to your question is, the 
> current semantics are bizarre.  As things stand, a process
> can open a file O_RDWR, and and can place a WRITE lease 
> but not a READ lease.  That can't be right.

yes - i was being too strict. looking at NFSv4 delegations; a read lease does 
not mean there are no writers, it means there are no other clients (fl_owners) 
writing.

the other side of the coin would be break_lease. it should not break a read 
lease on an open for write in the case where the fl_owner of the read lease is 
also the owner of the open for write.

-->Andy 

> 
> FWIW it's worth, I think the read lease should be allowed.
> Oplocks are concerned with what other processes are doing, 
> not what the caller is doing.  Also, the current semantcis
> break backward compatibility.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Michael
> 
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