From: "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov>
Subject: Re: NFS locking question
Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 11:52:29 -0600 (MDT)
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On Mon, 24 May 2004, David Dougall wrote:

> On linux clients, I have not been able to get the file to lock at all.  The
> fcntl returns EBADF which implies I passed a bad file descriptor, but I have
> verified that it is a valid file descriptor.

is the file open is a mode consistent with the lock request?  eg.  are you
asking for an exclusive lock when the file is only open for reading?  if so
you'll get EBADF... you must open a file for writing if you want an exclusive
lock...

-a
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