Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 23:19:09 -0700 (MST) From: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com> To: stable@FreeBSD.org Cc: William.Bloom@pegsinc.com (Bill Bloom) Subject: file locking Message-ID: <200006221639.JAA06440@freeway.dcfinc.com>
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Guys, this seems like a bug, or at least a mis-feature, to me.
If a process locks a region of a file using the POSIX-style locks, a
subsequent attempt to use the BSD flock call to lock the whole file
fails. This is arguably a silly thing to do, but still...
Reading the red/maroon 4.4BSD internals book seems to imply both
styles of locks should properly interoperate. Do we believe this is
working as designed? That is, even though it is the same process ID
attempting to acquire the second lock it fails.
Attached is a test program. The second lock attempt fails on
2.2.8-STABLE and on 3.4-STABLE (linked against either the threaded
or not threaded libc). Both locks succeed on Solaris 2.6. I
haven't tried the program on a Linux system yet.
-crl
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/* Test for lock method interactions */
#include <sys/file.h>
main()
{
struct flock lock_info;
char *lockfile="locking";
int lock_fd;
int ret;
/* create a test file to be locked */
if((lock_fd=open(lockfile,O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_EXCL,0444)) == -1)
{
perror("Can't create file");
exit(1);
}
/* set the range-style lock */
lock_info.l_type = F_WRLCK;
lock_info.l_whence = 0;
lock_info.l_start = 0;
lock_info.l_len = 0;
ret = fcntl(lock_fd, F_SETLK, &lock_info);
if (ret != -1)
printf("fcntl lock acquired, success code = %d\n", ret);
else
perror("failed to acquire fcntl lock");
/* now try full file lock */
ret = flock(lock_fd, LOCK_NB | LOCK_EX);
if (ret != -1)
printf("flock lock acquired, success code = %d\n", ret);
else
perror("failed to acquire flock lock");
unlink(lockfile); /* cleanup */
}
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