[OpenAFS-devel] linux-and-locks-cleanup-20070202 crashes linux kernels older than 2.6.17 (see RT #53457)

[Marcus Watts]

Various wrote:
...
> >> ...
> >>> There does not seem to be a good way to find out (e.g., autoconf test) if
> >>> a particular linux kernel has the 'old' or 'new' semantics of
> >>> flock_lock_file*(). The argument types of the functions have not changed.
> >> ...
> >> 
> >> This sounds like it's a feature that is almost exactly
> >> tied to linux kernel version.  Testing the Linux kernel
> >
> > Except for people like RedHat, Fedora, SuSe, who cherrypick patches.
> >
> >> should suffice to determine if the new locking semantics
> >> are true.
> >
> > Nope.
> 
> indeed.

Fine.  The vendors suck.

Moving right along...

				-Marcus