Re: broken flock() in linux 1.3.95 (fwd)

Justin Dossey (dossey@flex.net)
Sat, 27 Apr 1996 15:25:20 +0000 ( )


On Thu, 25 Apr 1996, Eugenio Jimenez Yguacel wrote:

> Same error here!!
> I have installed 1.3.95 in two machines
> a) ELF system. gcc 2.7.2.f.1 (g77 patched) libc-5.3.9
> No problem at all
> b) a.out system gcc 2.7.2.f.1 (g77 patched) libc-4.7.5
> fcntl_setlk() called by .... a lot of these :-(
>
> agetty was one of these processes. Take the source, compile them
> and fcntl_set disapeared :-)
> But bash, lpd and ypserv (yes, it's a NFS server) are triggering the same
> error :-( (now I'm compiling bash).
> Is it just a kernel problem or are the apps.?
> TIA

I fixed all this by upgrading to libc 5.3.9, then downgrading to 5.2.18
when I heard that there was a security hole in 5.3.9 (where can I find
out more about this?). After moving the libc.so.5 and libm.so.5 links
(what a pain; boot from floppy, etc; is there another way?), make has
ceased to work properly... it (and bash too) doesn't look in the current
directory when I want to execute something. this is almost definitely a
configuration problem, but I don't know how to fix it.
tia

Justin Dossey
dossey@flex.net houston, tx usa
http://www.flex.net/~dossey