Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 06:19:42 -0800 (PST) From: bmk@dtr.com To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: bmk@dtr.com, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, geoff@ginsu.com, bsd@ee.petra.ac.id, questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: elm problem :) Message-ID: <199511141419.GAA11536@dtr.com> In-Reply-To: <199511140727.IAA00168@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Nov 14, 95 08:27:34 am
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> As bmk@dtr.com wrote: > > > > I've always had to use flock style locking > > - fcntl always seemed to cause the symptoms the original complaint > > described. > That's quite surprising since both functions share a rather large part > of their implementation inside the kernel. flock() is basically an > fcntl-style lock spanning the entire file: [snip] Tell me about it. :) At the time (this was under a 1.1 system, BTW), I didn't know enough for this to really bother me. Now that I know better, I might just investigate it further. Perhaps there's something buggy with how elm uses fcntl?
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