Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 5 May 1996 20:21:45 +0000 (GMT) | From | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <> | Subject | Re: flock warnings |
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@conectiva.com.br R&D Director http://conectiva.com.br Conectiva Internet Solutions Curitiba - Parana' - Brazil
On Sat, 4 May 1996, Coolio wrote:
> Hello, I just joined this mailing list, hopefully someone knows whats wrong: > I just upgraded to kernel 1.3.95 from 1.3.72, with a system that was > initially slackware 2.something, but now supports compiling in ELF, along > with other things... However, after installing 1.3.95 these flock > warnings started sprouting up on the console coming from all sorts of > different processes... so thanks to the suggestion of people on #linux of > irc, I installed libc-5.3.12 and libc-4.7.5 by untarring it into the root > directory. That didnt stop any of the flock warnings, so I took another > person's suggestion and did ldconfig -v and then recompiled the kernel... > There are still as many flock warnings as before. > Does anyone know of someone who has managed to get rid of the flock > warnings and how they did it? (hopefully it didnt take commenting out the > warning in the kernel) > Also, what is flock warning about? Is there a real danger that should be > worried about? > > Thanks for your help, > omnilord@igc.net > http://www.igc.net/~omnilord/ > > PS > I looked in the man page and asked on the #linux channel of irc... but > there doesnt seem to be an option that makes tar overwrite symlinks.. > it seems like an option that people would want.. I wonder if Im just > overlooking something.. > (however, I did go through all the files that were reported by tar and > symlinked them correctly) >
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