Re: flock() over NFS

[Brian Long <brilong cisco com>]

> > FYI, if we mount the NFS filesystem with -nolock, this gets around the
> > behaviour, but it also opens up the posibility of problems for programs
> > using fcntl().  Any ideas on how to resolve this would be appreciated!

> I think fnctl() for locking is really supposed to be the way going
> forward.. If all your makefiles are belong to some flock-a-file util,
> then switching that util shouldn't be *too* painful, true?

False; this has been tried and it appears fcntl() is unable to lock
files in certain instances when flock() was able to lock them.

I don't have all the details, but thanks for responding.

/Brian/

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