On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 04:38:13PM +0400, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> This is a known feature that such "re-locking" is not atomic,
> but in the racy case the file should stay locked (although by
> some other process), but in this case the file will be unlocked.
That's a little subtle (I assume you've never seen this actually
happen?), but it makes sense to me.
> The proposal is to prepare the lock in advance keeping no chance
> to fail in the future code.
And the patch certainly looks correct.
I can add it to my (trivial) lock patches, if that's helpful--it'll
get folded into the branch -mm pulls from and I can pass it along to
Linus for 2.6.24.
What I don't have that I wish I did is good regression tests for the
flock or lease code (for posix locks I've been using connectathon,
though that misses some important things too).
--b.
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