Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 14:02:52 -0200 From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Wed, 06 Nov 2002, John Wade wrote: > I assume you are using flat seen files. If so, I ran into this > problem on 2.0.16 and came up with a workaround which others > ported to 2.1.3. This was based on flock, but you might be able > to use the same basic technique. see > http://servercc.oakton.edu/~jwade/cyrus/ Yeah, Debian has that patch applied (and forward ported to 2.1.9, both fcntl and flock), files lib/lock*... It works wonderfully. I have never received any reports of seen file lock troubles in the Debian packages. I believe it is also in the CMU Bugzilla. I haven't seen any evidence of this happening on non-Linux platforms, nor have I heard that there is ever a time when the file gets replaced even though it is locked. If it is merely a process that already has a lock blocks trying to get the same lock, then it is a kernel problem. Could we have more detail on any other failures? Larry
