docs: filesystems: convert mandatory-locking.txt to ReST
- Add a SPDX header; - Adjust document title; - Some whitespace fixes and new line breaks; - Use notes markups; - Add it to filesystems/index.rst. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/aecd6259fe9f99b2c2b3440eab6a2b989125e00d.1588021877.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Mandatory locking, as described in
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'Documentation/filesystems/mandatory-locking.txt' was prior to this release a
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'Documentation/filesystems/mandatory-locking.rst' was prior to this release a
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general configuration option that was valid for all mounted filesystems. This
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had a number of inherent dangers, not the least of which was the ability to
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freeze an NFS server by asking it to read a file for which a mandatory lock
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Mandatory File Locking For The Linux Operating System
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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
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=====================================================
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Mandatory File Locking For The Linux Operating System
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=====================================================
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Andy Walker <andy@lysaker.kvaerner.no>
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15 April 1996
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(Updated September 2007)
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0. Why you should avoid mandatory locking
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as candidates for mandatory locking, and using the existing fcntl()/lockf()
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interface for applying locks just as if they were normal, advisory locks.
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Note 1: In saying "file" in the paragraphs above I am actually not telling
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the whole truth. System V locking is based on fcntl(). The granularity of
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fcntl() is such that it allows the locking of byte ranges in files, in addition
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to entire files, so the mandatory locking rules also have byte level
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granularity.
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.. Note::
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Note 2: POSIX.1 does not specify any scheme for mandatory locking, despite
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borrowing the fcntl() locking scheme from System V. The mandatory locking
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scheme is defined by the System V Interface Definition (SVID) Version 3.
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1. In saying "file" in the paragraphs above I am actually not telling
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the whole truth. System V locking is based on fcntl(). The granularity of
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fcntl() is such that it allows the locking of byte ranges in files, in
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addition to entire files, so the mandatory locking rules also have byte
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level granularity.
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2. POSIX.1 does not specify any scheme for mandatory locking, despite
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borrowing the fcntl() locking scheme from System V. The mandatory locking
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scheme is defined by the System V Interface Definition (SVID) Version 3.
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2. Marking a file for mandatory locking
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* Initial implementation of mandatory locks. SunOS turned out to be
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* a rotten model, so I implemented the "obvious" semantics.
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* See 'Documentation/filesystems/mandatory-locking.txt' for details.
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* See 'Documentation/filesystems/mandatory-locking.rst' for details.
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* Andy Walker (andy@lysaker.kvaerner.no), April 06, 1996.
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*
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* Don't allow mandatory locks on mmap()'ed files. Added simple functions to
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