Re: PR/48351 CVS commit: src/usr.bin/flock

[Dennis Ferguson <dennis.c.ferguson%gmail.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/48351; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Dennis Ferguson <dennis.c.ferguson%gmail.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
 netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: PR/48351 CVS commit: src/usr.bin/flock
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 12:46:51 -0400

 On 29 Oct, 2013, at 12:05 , Christos Zoulas <christos%netbsd.org@localhost> 
wrote:
 > XXX: still flock -s 0 fails with EINVAL, why?
 
 Does it stop if you do a flock -u 0 first?
 
 I see code in the kernel to handle upgrading a lock from shared
 to exclusive, but I don't see anything to deal with downgrading
 from exclusive to shared (though I may be missing something).
 
 Dennis Ferguson