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Subject: Re: is flock broken in 2.4 or 2.5 kernels or what does this mean?
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: David Ford <david+cert@blue-labs.org>
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On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 17:08, David Ford wrote:
> (Alan)
> Actually I posted a "is sendmail on crack?" question last month when 
> 8.12.5 was released and this was in the release notes.  We got a bunch 
> of confirmations that Linux flock() was broken due to the accounting.

Thanks. I now have the original discussion, the demonstration and a
patch Andrea believes fixes it.

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