From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 4 03:04:45 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id DAA21567 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 4 Jan 1995 03:04:45 -0800 Received: from expo.x.org (expo.x.org [198.112.45.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id DAA21560 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 1995 03:04:43 -0800 Received: from fedora.x.org by expo.x.org id AA08170; Wed, 4 Jan 95 06:03:48 -0500 Received: by fedora.x.org id AA07647; Wed, 4 Jan 1995 06:03:45 -0500 Message-Id: <9501041103.AA07647@fedora.x.org> To: hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Never mind on the "mcopy busy" Date: Wed, 04 Jan 1995 06:03:45 EST From: Kaleb Keithley Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk It turns out that neither flock or fcntl locking works on the floppy drive device files and by disabling locking entirely mcopy works okay. The $64,000 question is why doesn't either locking method work? Have I somehow fubar-ed my kernel config? Is this something that does work in 2.x? (I'm still using 1.1.5.1 and will be for a while longer) -- Kaleb