From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Oct 26 00:52:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA06041 for ports-outgoing; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 00:52:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA06013 for ; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 00:52:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA12265; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 09:51:58 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA02654; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 09:51:58 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.6/8.6.9) id JAA13195; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 09:48:20 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199610260748.JAA13195@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: BUG/PATCH: mtools-3.0 To: hua@chromatic.com (Ernest Hua) Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 09:48:20 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199610252103.OAA13997@ohio.chromatic.com> from Ernest Hua at "Oct 25, 96 02:03:33 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Ernest Hua wrote: > The second problem is that flock() is apparently not supported, so I > kludged up something which warns that the locking mechanism (for > writes) is not working. flock() is not the correct way to lock a device, you can only lock files with it. (Actually, i don't see a way to lock a device at all...) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)