From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Subject: Re: trouble with file locking
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 01:14:26 -0500
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>>>>> " " == Erik Thiele <erik@thiele-hydraulik.de> writes:

    >> 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.

Then you have been using POSIX locks (i.e. fcntl()/lockf()). They
should work fine.


I agree, though, with David's assertion that the fact you are running
against HP-UX may be significant. They have historically had a
reputation for a poor implementation of the NFS lock manager protocol.

Cheers,
  Trond


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