Well, I don't know. I just saw that "Uses flock, not fcntl" is fixed.
You could retitle the bug or create a new one to track the order issue.
Best regards,
Tobias
Am 12.08.2012 11:43, schrieb paul.sz...@sydney.edu.au:
> Dear Tobias,
>
>> fixed 648941 8.14.4-2.1
>> This is fixed in Wheezy.
>
> Is it, really? The policy says:
> ... fcntl() locking must be combined with dot locking. To avoid
> deadlocks, a program should use fcntl() first and dot locking after
> this ...
> whereas strace shows:
> link("/var/mail/.lk10336dp639", "/var/mail/psz.lock") = 0
> open("/var/mail/psz", O_WRONLY|O_APPEND) = 4
> fcntl64(4, F_SETLKW, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_CUR, start=0, len=0}) = 0
> which seems the wrong order.
>
> Thanks, Paul
>
> Paul Szabo p...@maths.usyd.edu.au http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/
> School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney Australia
>
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