From 3b53a603c426aff25e454f5b7fbff91ff4970805 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2017 15:28:30 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] flock.2: Minor wording fix Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man2/flock.2 | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/man2/flock.2 b/man2/flock.2 index a1e612d17..2e38a9d08 100644 --- a/man2/flock.2 +++ b/man2/flock.2 @@ -210,9 +210,12 @@ Instead, one could use byte-range locking, which does work over NFS, given a sufficiently recent version of Linux and a server which supports locking. +.PP Since Linux 2.6.12, NFS clients support .BR flock () -locks by emulating them as byte-range locks on the entire file. +locks by emulating them as +.BR fcntl (2) +byte-range locks on the entire file. This means that .BR fcntl (2) and