False positive EDEADLK detected when using posix file locking on RHEL
Issue
- When using posix advisery locking fcntl failed with EDEADLK when a large number of processes were waiting on a lock.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5
- kernel-3.10.0-862.11.6.el7
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