From: "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov>
Subject: Re: Linux' NFS locking b0rken?
Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 07:28:26 -0600 (MDT)
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On Thu, 27 May 2004, Trond Myklebust wrote:

> That said, I believe that RHEL-3 at least is returning an error these days
> whenever you try to flock over NFS

yes it does:

  ~/shared > cat /etc/redhat-release 
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 3 (Taroon Update 2)

  ~/shared > uname -srm
  Linux 2.4.21-15.ELsmp i686

  ~/shared > ruby -e 'open("nfs","w").flock File::LOCK_EX'
  -e:1:in `flock': No locks available - nfs (Errno::ENOLCK)
          from -e:1


cheers.

-a
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