From: Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>
To: parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com
Cc: debian-hppa@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: file locking problems?
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 22:53:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001008225324.C639@tausq.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001008200047.B639@tausq.org>; from randolph@tausq.org on Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 08:00:48PM -0700
> update-passwd (a Debian package) makes a call to lckpwdf. That fails
> with an "Invalid argument" message. It looks like lckpwdf internally uses
> fcntl() locking, so I tried that and it too fails with an "Invalid
> argument" message. This happens both on nfs and local ext2 fs.
> Similar tests with flock() seems to work ok.
as it turns out, it looks like there's a glibc<->kernel mismatch.
the kernel defines F_RDLCK as 1, and glibc has it defined as 0. dhd is
aware of this and say he'll look into fixing this later this week.
randolph
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-10-09 5:52 UTC|newest]
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2000-10-09 3:00 [parisc-linux] file locking problems? Randolph Chung
2000-10-09 3:52 ` David Huggins-Daines
2000-10-09 5:53 ` Randolph Chung [this message]
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