From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 18:45:08 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Add file-private locking slide
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Add file-private locking slide
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+<div class="slide">
+  <h1>File-private locking [3.15]</h1>
+  <ul class="incremental">
+    <li>
+      POSIX says that closing a file descriptor removes
+      the <em>process</em>'s locks on that file
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      What if process has multiple file descriptors for the same
+      file?  It loses all locks obtained through any descriptor!
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Multithreaded processes may require serialisation around
+      file open/close to ensure they open each file exactly once
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Hard and symbolic links can hide that two files are really the
+      same
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Linux now provides file-private locks, associated with a
+      specific open file and removed when last descriptor for the
+      open file is closed
+    </li>
+  </ul>
+</div>
+
 <div class="slide">
   <h1>Questions?</h1>
 </div>