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    [PATCH] vfs: add lock owner argument to flush operation · 75e1fcc0
    Miklos Szeredi authored
    Pass the POSIX lock owner ID to the flush operation.
    
    This is useful for filesystems which don't want to store any locking state
    in inode->i_flock but want to handle locking/unlocking POSIX locks
    internally.  FUSE is one such filesystem but I think it possible that some
    network filesystems would need this also.
    
    Also add a flag to indicate that a POSIX locking request was generated by
    close(), so filesystems using the above feature won't send an extra locking
    request in this case.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMiklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
    Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
    Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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