Re: 2.5.61-mm1

[Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>]

On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 02:50:16PM -0800, Cliff White wrote:
> The showstopper for us is still the flock() issue. We have Mathew Wilcox's 
> patch from
> 2.5.52, which we have been applying to all recent kernels. The patch is in PLM 
> as patch id
> # 1061. The issue is in BugMe as bug #94 . 

Right.  Thanks for reminding me, bug reassigned to me.  Wondered why I
couldn't find it ;-)

> Without proper flock() we cannot stop and restart the database, which means
> we can't run the test.
> We've tried applying Wilcox's flock patch to -mm1, but it's doesn't go clean, 
> and frankly we're not smart enough
> to do the merge by hand -  lock code scares us. 

I'm doing my best to make it less scary.  But it's still horribly complex ;-(

> Can someone smarter than us maybe do a merge? 

Yes.  I'll do it later this evening.

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