Commit 63526525 authored by Mauro Carvalho Chehab's avatar Mauro Carvalho Chehab Committed by Jonathan Corbet

docs: filesystems: convert locks.txt to ReST

- Add a SPDX header;
- Adjust document and section titles;
- Add it to filesystems/index.rst.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/467b3f20e63d2640d22599b99229699b5fb79251.1588021877.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
parent ba302d2a
......@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ algorithms work.
dnotify
fiemap
files
locks
automount-support
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File Locking Release Notes
.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
==========================
File Locking Release Notes
==========================
Andy Walker <andy@lysaker.kvaerner.no>
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1. What's New?
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==============
1.1 Broken Flock Emulation
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......@@ -25,7 +29,7 @@ anyway (see the file "Documentation/process/changes.rst".)
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1.2.1 Typical Problems - Sendmail
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Because sendmail was unable to use the old flock() emulation, many sendmail
installations use fcntl() instead of flock(). This is true of Slackware 3.0
for example. This gave rise to some other subtle problems if sendmail was
......@@ -37,7 +41,7 @@ to lock solid with deadlocked processes.
1.2.2 The Solution
------------------
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The solution I have chosen, after much experimentation and discussion,
is to make flock() and fcntl() locks oblivious to each other. Both can
exists, and neither will have any effect on the other.
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