From patchwork Fri Oct 1 12:13:06 2021 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Jeff Layton X-Patchwork-Id: 12530425 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66E0AC433EF for ; Fri, 1 Oct 2021 12:13:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49AC2619E7 for ; Fri, 1 Oct 2021 12:13:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1354335AbhJAMOw (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Oct 2021 08:14:52 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:49154 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1354311AbhJAMOv (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Oct 2021 08:14:51 -0400 Received: by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 510EA619E7; Fri, 1 Oct 2021 12:13:07 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1633090387; bh=pPgxMq0U5wKnAG+FvvoW1f4xApRT3cLSGCNvlB0Q2Vw=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:From; b=UW0PeLVxBtyLP/Of2EeRhoDDR8j2UJC1qm1k6K1cbz3ADTitIcLNoPaZp3mS5HyGS bzbHoWgunGorrpT/jIx/iUJQoPmcd3lYeSp16Q7+GpXrYlsEvGjNV1CaafQF8e5Qqg GPxB6HX8/29sf+UNt0IiqieEuxuLLmm0Uh+XotG/9ofHqVfv8Jko19iUhtJkPCoYL/ T78iNViMM6+UIEQ03jh9oAsWKLF8DsGfjKnjmt+rNOYbAvFy2kf29zu9xxwHEJc782 w6+7ccrFYFvyM7cn7ucDRS+o8t/WiSs6mIDkD2CmOhWKb8WEmS5Dgs3kZdA3+njtRZ wC0uj2tJaIqeg== From: Jeff Layton To: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Cc: alx.manpages@gmail.com, mtk.manpages@gmail.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jan Kara Subject: [PATCH] fcntl.2: note that mandatory locking is fully deprecated as of v5.15 Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2021 08:13:06 -0400 Message-Id: <20211001121306.17339-1-jlayton@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.31.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton --- 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. .PP By default, both traditional (process-associated) and open file description record locks are advisory.