Re: fcntl(F_GETLEASE) semantics??

[shd@modeemi.cs.tut.fi (Heikki Orsila)]

Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au> wrote:
> if (fcntl(fd, F_SETLEASE, F_RDLCK) == -1)
>     fail;

Is that something inotify can do? If so, then should F_SETLEASE/GETLEASE
be deprecated for future? F_SETLEASE is Linux specific, and inotify is
generally more useful. It looks like inotify could be used to detected 
changes in any file.

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