From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Mgr. Peter Tuharsky" Subject: Re: clipper f/r locking failure Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 11:31:17 +0100 Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <4014EC75.5060805@misbb.sk> References: <40151A6D.8070301@troyer.co.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <40151A6D.8070301@troyer.co.at> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Yassen Damyanov , linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org And also, try running it under stable 1.2.0 DOSEMU and the beta9 version of FREEDOS (avaiable near binaries download). I know that with older versions of FREEDOS it didn't work. Peter Yassen Damyanov wrote: > hi all, > > I've been trying for quite some time to run a clipper accounting > application within DOSEMU/FreeDOS (also within DOSEMU/MS-DOS 7). The > thing runs just fine until time comes to do the clipper file and > record locking (flock, rlock). In this case, when running two DOSEMU > instances on one and the same machine, and files are shared via > lredir, one of two clients hangs. (If you wonder how two clients > operate on one machine at the same time, they are remote X terminals). > > DOSEMU leaves a message like this after terminating the hang client: > > "ERROR: SS selector invalid: 0x6A22, type=0 np=1" > > The linux version is 2.4.20; the DOSEMU is 1.1.99. I tried with the > FreeDOS shipped together with the binary distro of DOSEMU; also with > MS-DOS 7 as I said already (which shows me that the problem, ot at > leats part of it, is not in the DOS but in the emulator). The clipper > version is 5.3b and uses standard clipper locking functions (flock, > rlock). If any other information is needed, just let me know. > > Please help me somehow to solve this. I was fighting quite a long time > with this sole trouble. If I succeed, a well known accounting software > in my country will get a reliable and legal open source platform to > run on! Would be REALLY GREAT! Many people know of the experiment and > often ask me how are things going on... I would like DOSEMU to win > this case :-) Hope it will. > > -- > > What I intend to try last (after trying so many options, like sharing > a disk image or a real vfat partion (yes, bad ideas, but I tried these > to see what happens), is to activate networking on each DOSEMU session > and try to mount to a samba share somewhere on the local net. > > Any comments and suggestions are more than welcome. > I would appreciate any help -- thanks in advance! > > Regards, > Yassen > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >