Re: NFS and file locking

1999-08-20 Thread William T Wilson
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Stephen Pitts wrote: > Wordperfect (evidently using flock()) works fine. An strace on kexpress, > however, reveals that gdbm uses fcntrl! Perhaps I'll look into it and > submit a patch at some point. It's possble that the NFS client software in the kernel simply translates fc

Re: NFS and file locking

1999-08-20 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 02:13:39AM -0400, William T Wilson wrote: > On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Stephen Pitts wrote: > > > doesn't work. I think that it is trying to lock the files in some > > non-NFS compatible way. > > You have to run lockd if you want locking to work over NFS. Even so, > locking sti

Re: NFS and file locking

1999-08-20 Thread William T Wilson
On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Stephen Pitts wrote: > doesn't work. I think that it is trying to lock the files in some > non-NFS compatible way. You have to run lockd if you want locking to work over NFS. Even so, locking still doesn't work right (i.e. it still leaves open the possibility of race conditi

RE: NFS and file locking

1999-08-20 Thread Sean Perry
> > Are there any workarounds to these NFS locking problems? kexpress can be fixed by mailing the author and helping him fix it -- source is a great thing. WP8 I am surprised fails, we used it on Suns where everything is nfs.