Date: Wed, 4 Jan 1995 13:40:09 +0100 (MET) From: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier ROBERT) To: kaleb@x.org (Kaleb Keithley) Cc: hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Never mind on the "mcopy busy" Message-ID: <9501041240.AA14263@blaise.ibp.fr> In-Reply-To: <9501041103.AA07647@fedora.x.org> from "Kaleb Keithley" at Jan 4, 95 06:03:45 am
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> 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)
To my knowledge, mtools have never worked with any form of locking. I've
not tried with 2.1.
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Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: the daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@FreeBSD.ORG
FreeBSD keltia 2.1.0-Development #2: Thu Dec 29 20:28:18 1994
roberto@keltia:/usr/src/sys/compile/KELTIA ctm#235
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