Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 27 Feb 1999 11:36:26 +0100 | From | Ruben Schattevoy <> | Subject | Re: lockd does not work as expected |
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Trond Myklebust wrote: > > Hi, > > 'flock' does not and will not ever work other than for local file > locking. This is consistent with existing practice on other UNIX > systems. For locking over NFS or other networking filesystems, use > true POSIX locks using the 'fcntl' or 'lockf' API. >
Thanks a lot. I'll try to replace the flock system call by any of the others. Actually flock worked perfectly as long as I just use solaris nodes. So the linux system is not "consistent with existing practice on other UNIX's".
Regards,
Ruben
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