Adam Megacz wrote:
> Jeffrey Altman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> Absolutely.  In fact, I'd already implemented that.  The only problem
>>> is that it doesn't work on Linux since the Linux AFS client does a
>>> more elaborate job of faking the byte-range locks.
> 
>> The AFS Linux client does not implement this functionality.
> 
> We must be talking about different things here.  When I run the
> program below on MacOS, it prints "parent and child both got locks";
> when I run it on Linux, it prints "parent got lock, child did not".
> Both are running OpenAFS 1.4.2.

And I repeat:

  This is not implemented by OpenAFS.  The functionality is provided by
  the Linux kernel.

I don't know how the Linux kernel is determining that it should activate
this functionality.

Jeffrey Altman

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