Re: [PATCH] fcntl.2: note that mandatory locking is fully deprecated as of v5.15
From: Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) <hidden>
Date: 2021-10-02 17:41:33
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On 10/1/21 2:13 PM, Jeff Layton wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> --- man2/fcntl.2 | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)diff --git a/man2/fcntl.2 b/man2/fcntl.2 index 7b5604e3a699..90e4c4a9f379 100644 --- a/man2/fcntl.2 +++ b/man2/fcntl.2@@ -619,8 +619,8 @@ Because of these bugs, and the fact that the feature is believed to be little used, since Linux 4.5, mandatory locking has been made an optional feature, governed by a configuration option -.RB ( CONFIG_MANDATORY_FILE_LOCKING ). -This is an initial step toward removing this feature completely. +.RB ( CONFIG_MANDATORY_FILE_LOCKING ). This feature is no longer +supported at all in Linux 5.15 and above.
The same applies here. Please use a newline after '.', as the previous text did. Thanks, Alex
.PP By default, both traditional (process-associated) and open file description record locks are advisory.
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