OFD locks

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Aug  5 23:22, Cedric Blancher wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Aug 2025 at 21:50, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I just pushed a patch to implement OFD locks.  It's just basically
> > working, but I only performed some very simple tests, so it probably
> > has a bug or two.
> >
> > I'm offline until next Monday, but I wouldn't mind if somebody has a few
> > tests to check that OFD locks and the interaction with traditional POSIX
> > locks works as desired.  I looked into the GLibc testsuite but it is not
> > helpful in terms of testing locking.
> >
> 
> How do OFD locks map to Win32 locks? Do OFD locks work against other
> machines in a SMB network?

No, they are just like POSIX and BSD locks strictly local.


Corinna