Re: lockd errors

Scott McDermott (vaxerdec@frontiernet.net)
Sat, 14 Aug 1999 15:06:29 -0400


Alan Cox on Wed 11/08 18:17 +0100:
> > It is my understanding that the lockd in the free Unix communities
> > does not work as expected (ie. as the Sun lockd does)
>
> Linux 2.0 doesnt have a lockd support. You are absolutely right. Linux
> 2.2 does but if your server is 2.0 that doesn't help

And what if the server is Solaris? Same problem (at least in 2.2.10);
get "failed to monitor" messages and no programs that use flock() or
fcntl() will get their lock. This is a real pain using MUA on NFS
mounted spool, and using dotlocking is rather silly don't you think?.

> > Recompile elm directing it to use dot-locking only.
>
> Bingo

Isn't that a step backwards?

-- 
Scott

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