From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 4 07:30:14 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id HAA25515 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 4 Jan 1995 07:30:14 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id HAA25496 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 1995 07:29:58 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA21819; Wed, 4 Jan 1995 16:30:20 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9-s1) with UUCP id QAA21877 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 4 Jan 1995 16:30:19 +0100 Received: by bonnie.tcd-dresden.de (8.6.8/8.6.6) id QAA04662; Wed, 4 Jan 1995 16:17:24 +0100 From: j@uriah.sax.de (J Wunsch) Message-Id: <199501041517.QAA04662@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> Subject: Re: Never mind on the "mcopy busy" To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Wed, 4 Jan 1995 16:17:23 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: <9501041103.AA07647@fedora.x.org> from "Kaleb Keithley" at Jan 4, 95 06:03:45 am X-Phone: +49-351-8141 137 Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.sax.de X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 895 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Kaleb Keithley wrote: | | | 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? :-/ -- cheers, J"org work: --- no longer --- private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.sax.de Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)