From: John Covici <covici@ccs.covici.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: is flock broken in 2.4 or 2.5 kernels or what does this mean?
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 10:41:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m37kjmik0g.fsf@ccs.covici.com> (raw)
In the latest release notes of sendmail I have read the following:
NOTE: Linux appears to have broken flock() again. Unless
the bug is fixed before sendmail 8.13 is shipped,
8.13 will change the default locking method to
fcntl() for Linux kernel 2.4 and later. You may
want to do this in 8.12 by compiling with
-DHASFLOCK=0. Be sure to update other sendmail
related programs to match locking techniques.
Can anyone tell me what this is all about -- is there any basis in
reality for what they are saying?
Thanks.
--
John Covici
covici@ccs.covici.com
next reply other threads:[~2002-07-23 14:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-23 14:41 John Covici [this message]
2002-07-23 16:31 ` is flock broken in 2.4 or 2.5 kernels or what does this mean? Alan Cox
2002-07-23 15:27 ` Richard A Nelson
2002-07-23 15:50 ` Jirka Kosina
2002-07-23 21:44 ` J.A. Magallon
2002-07-24 16:08 ` David Ford
2002-07-25 1:28 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-23 23:20 ` Andrea Arcangeli
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2002-07-23 23:28 dank
2002-07-23 23:31 ` dank
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