Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> writes:

> >>>>> " " == Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> writes:
> 
>      > From my reading of the patch, it supersedes the old patch, and
>      > is only
>      > necessary on the client. Is also does not compile :-)
> 
> Yeah, I admit I didn't test it out...
> 
>      > Here's an updated patch which does compile.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
>      > I am still running tests, but so far it looks good (that is all
>      > locks are freed when a process with locks running on a NFS
>      > client is killed).
> 
> Good...

I've ran test overnight on four boxen, and no locks were lost.
I guess you can send this patch to Marcello now.

I've tested with the enclosed program.

 
> There are still 2 other issues with the generic POSIX locking code.
> Both issues have to do with CLONE_VM and have been raised on
> linux-kernel & linux-fsdevel. Unfortunately they met with no response,
> so I'm unable to pursue...

Can we help? Pointers?

Phil.