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Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 02:19:39 +0200
From: Kurt Roeckx <Q AT ping DOT be>
To: Gunnar Andre Dalsnes <hardon AT online DOT no>
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Help on posix file lock semantics
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On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 01:31:39AM +0200, Gunnar Andre Dalsnes wrote:
> At 22.08.01 00:37 , you wrote:
> >
> >Those 2 regions follow each other.  I think you're not supposed
> >to merge those regions even if you could.
> >
> >If you don't merge regions in any other case, why would you
> >suddenly want to merge them in the case of overlapping regions?
> 
> But if the (linux) os kernel does it automagically for us, I want to do it too:-)

The comment for posix_lock_file() in fs/locks.s says: 
"We merge adjacent locks whenever possible.", so I guess it
always does.


Kurt


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