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David Howells authored
Fix AFS file locking to allow fine grained locks as some applications, such as firefox, won't work if they can't take such locks on certain state files - thereby preventing the use of kAFS to distribute a home directory. Note that this cannot be made completely functional as the protocol only has provision for whole-file locks, so there exists the possibility of a process deadlocking itself by getting a partial read-lock on a file first and then trying to get a non-overlapping write-lock - but we got the server's read lock with the first lock, so we're now stuck. OpenAFS solves this by just granting any partial-range lock directly without consulting the server - and hoping there's no remote collision. I want to implement that in a separate patch and it requires a bit more thought. Fixes: 8d6c554126b8 ("AFS: implement file locking") Reported-by: Jonathan Billings <jsbillings@jsbillings.org> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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