Despite this error return, the file descriptor owner is set,
and signals will be sent to the owner.
.SS Mandatory locking
-The implementation of mandatory locking in all known versions of Linux
+The Linux implementation of mandatory locking
is subject to race conditions which render it unreliable:
.\" http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=119013491707153&w=2
-a
+.\"
+.\" Reconfirmed by Jeff Layton
+.\" From: Jeff Layton <jlayton <at> redhat.com>
+.\" Subject: Re: Status of fcntl() mandatory locking
+.\" Newsgroups: gmane.linux.file-systems
+.\" Date: 2014-04-28 10:07:57 GMT
+.\" http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.file-systems/84481/focus=84518
.BR write (2)
call that overlaps with a lock may modify data after the mandatory lock is
acquired;