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: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/467b3f20e63d2640d22599b99229699b5fb79251.1588021877.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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dnotify
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fiemap
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locks
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automount-support
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File Locking Release Notes
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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
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File Locking Release Notes
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==========================
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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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1.2.1 Typical Problems - Sendmail
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Because sendmail was unable to use the old flock() emulation, many sendmail
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installations use fcntl() instead of flock(). This is true of Slackware 3.0
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for example. This gave rise to some other subtle problems if sendmail was
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1.2.2 The Solution
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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The solution I have chosen, after much experimentation and discussion,
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is to make flock() and fcntl() locks oblivious to each other. Both can
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exists, and neither will have any effect on the other.
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