Commit ff467342 authored Oct 30, 2019 by Jeff Layton Committed by Jonathan Corbet Nov 07, 2019

Documentation: atomic_open called with shared lock on non-O_CREAT open



The exclusive lock is only held when O_CREAT is set.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

parent e8686a40

Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst

+1 −1

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		@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ getattr: no
		listxattr: no
		fiemap: no
		update_time: no
		atomic_open: exclusive
		atomic_open: shared (exclusive if O_CREAT is set in open flags)
		tmpfile: no
		============ =============================================

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