patch-2.1.4 linux/Documentation/locks.txt

• Lines: 37
• Date: Fri Oct 11 07:33:33 1996
• Orig file: v2.1.3/linux/Documentation/locks.txt
• Orig date: Sun Sep 22 09:41:32 1996

diff -u --recursive --new-file v2.1.3/linux/Documentation/locks.txt linux/Documentation/locks.txt
@@ -67,3 +67,36 @@
 sendmail may have problems running in 'newaliases' mode. It will no longer
 deadlock though. Recompile sendmail to use flock() and your troubles will
 be over.
+
+1.3 Mandatory Locking As A Mount Option
+---------------------------------------
+
+Mandatory locking, as described in 'Documentation/mandatory.txt' was prior
+to this release a general configuration option that was valid for all
+mounted filesystems. This had a number of inherent dangers, not the least
+of which was the ability to freeze an NFS server by asking it to read a
+file for which a mandatory lock existed.
+
+From this release of the kernel, mandatory locking can be turned on and off
+on a per-filesystem basis, using the mount options 'mand' and 'nomand'.
+The default is to disallow mandatory locking. The intention is that
+mandatory locking only be enabled on a local filesystem as the specific need
+arises.
+
+Until an updated version of mount(8) becomes available you may have to apply
+this patch to the mount sources (based on the version distributed with Rick
+Faiths util-linux-2.5 package):
+
+*** mount.c.orig	Sat Jun  8 09:14:31 1996
+--- mount.c	Sat Jun  8 09:13:02 1996
+***************
+*** 100,105 ****
+--- 100,107 ----
+    { "noauto",	0, MS_NOAUTO	},	/* Can  only be mounted explicitly */
+    { "user",	0, MS_USER	},	/* Allow ordinary user to mount */
+    { "nouser",	1, MS_USER	},	/* Forbid ordinary user to mount */
++   { "mand",	0, MS_MANDLOCK	},	/* Allow mandatory locks on this FS */
++   { "nomand",	1, MS_MANDLOCK	},	/* Forbid mandatory locks on this FS */
+    /* add new options here */
+  #ifdef MS_NOSUB
+    { "sub",	1, MS_NOSUB	},	/* allow submounts */