Re: kNFS troubles (2.2.14pre15, Mandrake 7.0)

[Mike Eisler]

> 
> 
> On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Olaf Kirch wrote:
> > 
> > The reason knfsd refuses to touch a file with the mandatory locking bit
> > on is that I wasn't sure how to deal with it. Blocking the server thread
> > isn't an option.
> 
> I think we should just silently ignore mandatory locking over NFS. There's
> no way to make it work anyway, so why bother? And failing such a file is
> just too impolite..

And pretending that it is getting locked, which is what servicing the requests
for file is tantamount to, is polite? An error should be returned on any
NFSv[23] i/o request to a file that has the mandatory lock bit set.

> Mandatory locking is a silly thing in the first place, imnsho.

Absolute agreement there. 

	-mre