From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
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 <jack@suse.cz>
Subject: [PATCH] fcntl.2: note that mandatory locking is fully deprecated as of v5.15
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2021 08:13:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211001121306.17339-1-jlayton@kernel.org> (raw)
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.
.PP
By default, both traditional (process-associated) and open file description
record locks are advisory.
--
2.31.1
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2021-10-01 12:13 Jeff Layton [this message]
2021-10-02 17:41 ` [PATCH] fcntl.2: note that mandatory locking is fully deprecated as of v5.15 Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
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