From: Erik Thiele <erik@thiele-hydraulik.de>
Subject: Re: trouble with file locking
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 07:05:31 +0100
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On 19 Nov 2003 15:21:31 -0500
Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> wrote:

> >>>>> " " == David Dougall <davidd@et.byu.edu> writes:
> 
>      > Is this test program run on a HP-UX client or a linux client?
>      > My experience with HP-UX nfs client is that locking is very
>      > flaky if it even works at all.  You might try flock instead of
>      > fcntl.  That seems to work better.  You might also, if you have
>      > a support contract, check out HP-UX nfs patches.  They might
>      > suddenly make it work.  --David Dougall
> 

the program is run on a linux client. the hp-ux clients i only told you
about because they _might_ be disturbing the system in a way that the
other clients don't work anymore.

> flock() doesn't work at all over NFS in Linux. It just does local
> locking.

well, but i saw ethereal showimg me the nfs locking packets.


cu
erik

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Erik Thiele


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