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fcntl.2: note that mandatory locking is fully deprecated as of v5.15

Message ID 20211001121306.17339-1-jlayton@kernel.org (mailing list archive)
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Series fcntl.2: note that mandatory locking is fully deprecated as of v5.15 | expand

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Jeff Layton Oct. 1, 2021, 12:13 p.m. UTC
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
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 man2/fcntl.2 | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

Alejandro Colomar Oct. 2, 2021, 5:41 p.m. UTC | #1
On 10/1/21 2:13 PM, Jeff Layton wrote:
> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
> ---
>   man2/fcntl.2 | 4 ++--
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man2/fcntl.2 b/man2/fcntl.2
> index 7b5604e3a699..90e4c4a9f379 100644
> --- a/man2/fcntl.2
> +++ b/man2/fcntl.2
> @@ -619,8 +619,8 @@ Because of these bugs,
>   and the fact that the feature is believed to be little used,
>   since Linux 4.5, mandatory locking has been made an optional feature,
>   governed by a configuration option
> -.RB ( CONFIG_MANDATORY_FILE_LOCKING ).
> -This is an initial step toward removing this feature completely.
> +.RB ( CONFIG_MANDATORY_FILE_LOCKING ). This feature is no longer
> +supported at all in Linux 5.15 and above.

The same applies here.  Please use a newline after '.', as the previous 
text did.

Thanks,

Alex

>   .PP
>   By default, both traditional (process-associated) and open file description
>   record locks are advisory.
>
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diff --git a/man2/fcntl.2 b/man2/fcntl.2
index 7b5604e3a699..90e4c4a9f379 100644
--- a/man2/fcntl.2
+++ b/man2/fcntl.2
@@ -619,8 +619,8 @@  Because of these bugs,
 and the fact that the feature is believed to be little used,
 since Linux 4.5, mandatory locking has been made an optional feature,
 governed by a configuration option
-.RB ( CONFIG_MANDATORY_FILE_LOCKING ).
-This is an initial step toward removing this feature completely.
+.RB ( CONFIG_MANDATORY_FILE_LOCKING ). This feature is no longer
+supported at all in Linux 5.15 and above.
 .PP
 By default, both traditional (process-associated) and open file description
 record locks are advisory.