Date: Wed, 4 Jan 1995 16:17:23 +0100 (MET) From: j@uriah.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Never mind on the "mcopy busy" Message-ID: <199501041517.QAA04662@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> In-Reply-To: <9501041103.AA07647@fedora.x.org> from "Kaleb Keithley" at Jan 4, 95 06:03:45 am
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As Kaleb Keithley wrote:
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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)
I doubt it works in 2.x.
I've noticed that FreeBSD 2's flock() is binary incompatible with
FreeBSD 1.1.5's. My older copy of elm refuses to work now under 2.0,
i get an `flock: invalid argument'.
I hope it isn't intention for FreeBSD 2 to be binary incompatible to
its ancestors? :-/
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