From: David Huggins-Daines <dhd@linuxcare.com>
To: Randolph Chung <randolph@tausq.org>
Cc: parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com, debian-hppa@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] file locking problems?
Date: 08 Oct 2000 23:52:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87g0m6hdrp.fsf@linuxcare.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Randolph Chung's message of "Sun, 8 Oct 2000 20:00:48 -0700"
Randolph Chung <randolph@tausq.org> writes:
> 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.
Lots of things report this actually - if you look in your log files
you'll see lots of "utmp file is locked/read" - also in bootup
messages there will be a "can't lock <whatever>".
I have a feeling this might just be generally broken in the revision
of the kernel we're using, though it could be a problem with LFS in
our glibc if it is trying to use fcntl64().
I suspect that our LFS stuff is generally broken (lseek64() is, at
least) and plan to investigate further on Tuesday.
--
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Linuxcare. Support for the revolution.
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2000-10-09 3:00 [parisc-linux] file locking problems? Randolph Chung
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2000-10-09 5:53 ` Randolph Chung
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