From: Trond Myklebust Subject: Re: File lock with multiple clients Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 18:20:13 -0700 Message-ID: <1129857613.10026.1.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> References: <17240.14767.472971.724098@cse.unsw.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: petter.knutsen@cgi.no, nfs@lists.sourceforge.net Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx1-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.91] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1ESla0-0008Or-D6 for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 18:20:20 -0700 Received: from pat.uio.no ([129.240.130.16] ident=7411) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.44) id 1ESlZy-0001Hg-Qk for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 18:20:20 -0700 To: Neil Brown In-Reply-To: <17240.14767.472971.724098@cse.unsw.edu.au> Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: fr den 21.10.2005 klokka 10:43 (+1000) skreiv Neil Brown: > NOTES > flock(2) does not lock files over NFS. Use fcntl(2) instead: that does > work over NFS, given a sufficiently recent version of Linux and a > server which supports locking. > Note that this is not entirely accurate any more. Recent kernels will emulate flock() over NFS by using fcntl() locks. Cheers, Trond ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs