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Re: [PATCH] locks: rename file-private locks to file-description locks
- From: "Stefan (metze) Metzmacher" <metze at samba dot org>
- To: Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat dot com>, linux-fsdevel at vger dot kernel dot org
- Cc: linux-kernel at vger dot kernel dot org, samba-technical at lists dot samba dot org, Ganesha NFS List <nfs-ganesha-devel at lists dot sourceforge dot net>, Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>, libc-alpha <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, Michael Kerrisk <mtk dot manpages at gmail dot com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 18:05:46 +0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] locks: rename file-private locks to file-description locks
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Am 21.04.2014 15:45, schrieb Jeff Layton:
> File-private locks have been merged into Linux for v3.15, and *now*
> people are commenting that the name and macro definitions for the new
> file-private locks suck.
>
> ...and I can't even disagree. The names and command macros do suck.
>
> We're going to have to live with these for a long time, so it's
> important that we be happy with the names before we're stuck with them.
>
> The consensus on the lists so far is that they should be rechristened as
> "file-description locks".
>
> This patch makes the following changes that I think are necessary before
> v3.15 ships:
>
> 1) rename the command macros to their new names. These end up in the uapi
> headers and so are part of the external-facing API. It turns out that
> glibc doesn't actually use the fcntl.h uapi header, but it's hard to
> be sure that something else won't. Changing it now is safest.
>
> 2) make the the /proc/locks output display these as type "FDLOCK"
>
> The rest of the renaming can wait until v3.16, since everything else
> isn't visible outside of the kernel.
>
> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>