Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 19:02:14 +0200 From: Marco Molteni <molter@tin.it> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Cc: Boris Popov <bp@butya.kz> Subject: Re: MSDOS FS and flock? Message-ID: <20010611190214.A38726@cobweb.example.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011210827440.42711-200000@lion.butya.kz>; from bp@butya.kz on Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 08:31:46AM %2B0600 References: <200011201400.eAKE0T613531@nil.science-factory.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011210827440.42711-200000@lion.butya.kz>
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On 2000-11-21, Boris Popov wrote: > On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Marc van Woerkom wrote: > > > I wonder why Emacs' movemail program is not able to move mail on a > > MSDOS partion. Under Linux this seems to be no problem. > > > > My guess is that msdosfs does not allow flock(). > > Yes, msdosfs doesn't implement advisory locks. Attached you'll > find a diff against recent -current (but should work on -stable > too) which adds necessary VOP to msdosfs. [..] Hi, I have the same problem as Marc's, i.e. the msdos filesystem doesn't allow file locking (at least on FreeBSD 4.3 which I am using). I did a search in the various FreeBSD mailing list and the only answer I only got was the thread I quoted, started by http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=19625+0+archive/2000/freebsd-fs/20001126.freebsd-fs My questions are: any news on that, or the only fix is to apply the patch provided by Boris? any workaround/ideas to be able to share data (specifically, email files in mbox format) on a dual-boot machine between windows and FreeBSD? thanks Marco To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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