Re: clipper f/r locking failure

Mgr. Peter Tuharsky
2004-01-26T10:31:17Z

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
>
>
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