Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: File locking problems? | From | (Joseph H. Buehler) | Date | 04 Nov 1997 18:38:44 -0500 |
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Mike Harrelson <mikeh@mailbot.mspring.net> writes:
> I've seen systems here where fcntl(2) locking doesn't seem to work. Pine > and procmail love corrupting mailboxes on these systems. Procmail is > compiled with fcntl() locking and dot file locking. Elm uses both fcntl() > and dot locking (as we have it compiled) and worked fine. When procmail > was recompiled without dot file locking, Elm started failing too (failed > means it reported a corrupted mailbox if it checked the mailbox while mail > was coming in). All of this was on Linux 2.0.x systems using > libc-5.4.33/37.
I killed a process the other day; the kernel did not release a file lock it was holding. The process was hung in the SCSI generic driver, if that matters, kernel 2.0.30 +pre6.
Joe Buehler
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