>>>>> "Trond" == Trond Myklebust <[email protected]> writes:
Trond> to den 11.08.2005 Klokka 09:48 (+1000) skreiv Peter Chubb:
>> Hi, The LTP test fcntl23 is failing. It does, in essence, fd =
>> open(xxx, O_RDWR|O_CREAT, 0777); if (fcntl(fd, F_SETLEASE, F_RDLCK)
>> == -1) fail;
>>
>> fcntl always returns EAGAIN here. The manual page says that a read
>> lease causes notification when `another process' opens the file for
>> writing or truncates it. The kernel implements `any process'
>> (including the current one).
>>
>> Which semantics are correct? Personally I think that what the
>> kernel implements is correct (you can't get a read lease unsless
>> there are no writers _at_ _all_)
Trond> A read lease should mean that there are no writers at all.
Trond> If we were to allow the current process to open for write, then
Trond> that would still mean that nobody else can get a lease. In
Trond> effect you have been granted a lease with exclusive semantics
Trond> (i.e. a write lease). You might as well request that instead of
Trond> pretending it is a read lease.
So the manual page is wrong. Fine.
--
Dr Peter Chubb http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au peterc AT gelato.unsw.edu.au
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