Re: File still being accessed?

[mdew <mdew@orcon.net.nz>]

On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 00:37, Alex Riesen wrote:
> mdew, Thu, Dec 12, 2002 11:50:19 +0100:
> > > > Under Linux 2.5.51 Ive noticed that Downloader4X (Getright-type for
> > > > linux) http://www.krasu.ru/soft/chuchelo/
> > > > 
> > > > when trying to resume a file, It thinks the file is still being
> > > > accessed, however under 2.4, it has no such problem. Is this a bug in
> > > > 2.5.x still? any patches available that could help?
> > > which d4x version, what _exactly_ the message states?
> > > -alex
> > I've tried both D4X GTK2 (2.4.0-rc1) based and GTK1.2.x (1.3.0) based, same results.
> > 
> > I add a download, let it partially download, then press
> > "Continue/Restart Downloads"
> > 
> > -> Retry 1 ...
> > -> Trying to connect...
> > -> Socket was opened!
> > -> Trying to create a file
> > +  File was created!
> > !! File is already opened by another download!
> > !! Downloading was failed...
> 
> The problem is advisory file locking. I'll try to debug
> it later, but something changed in how
> fcntl(fd, F_SETLK,{...,F_WRLCK,...}) works. It return an
> error now. Or maybe d4x just fails to unlock it, it doesn't
> check if unlock failed.
> The program doesn't show the real value of errno, just
> handles EINVAL and ENOLCK, so exact analisys is not possible
> apart something bad happened ("is already opened").
> The EINTR case, for instance, would cause similar behaviour.
> 
> I suppose d4x just incorrectly uses it, but cannot say anything
> for sure.
> The maintainer is notified.
> 
> -alex

email me, whenever its solved ;) other than that, I've found 2.5.51
pretty stable..its getting there.

many thanks
-mdew