Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: knfs quota fix, and some locking ramblings. | Date | Sat, 10 Apr 1999 14:37:30 +0200 | From | Anders Hammarquist <> |
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> > > > Then, I was also told that files marked for mandatory locking were > > > > not openable via NFS (even if they weren't regular files). The first > > > > > > This is correct > > > > Huh? That means (the admittedly rather useless, but still common) > > setgid directories without group write are inacessible. They get > > created that way in a setgid directory if you umask group execute. > > Mandatory lock doesn't apply to a directory. It has other meanings. > Im not arguing that test is wrong when the file is a directory.
Ok, I read it as you implying that the (original) test was correct.
Incidentally, the locking problem turned out to be a userspace problem on the alpha on closer inspection. <whine> why can't people write code that works on 64-bit machines </whine>
/Anders
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