From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 10:38:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 10:38:42 -0400 Received: from ccs.covici.com ([209.249.181.196]:37002 "EHLO ccs.covici.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 10:38:42 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: is flock broken in 2.4 or 2.5 kernels or what does this mean? From: John Covici Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 10:41:51 -0400 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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