Re: New kernel - netscape hangs

H.J. Lu (hjl@varesearch.com)
Wed, 3 Feb 1999 11:49:29 -0800 (PST)

>
> > BTW, it is requred by POSIX to return EINVAL if file locking is not
> > available for the file desrcriptor.
>
> Im aware of that paticular posix stupidity. I guess the bar was opening
> early that evening.

I think the POSIX concept is correct. The current Linux kernel will
sleep forever. What is your suggestion to POSIX? I am collecting
comments on POSIX now.

>
> > It is irrelevant to my patch. My patch fixes a POSIX bug.
>
> Then I don't follow why you change anything except that one return value (and
> that makes sense alone).
>

I meant I fixed a Linux kernel bug which doesn't follow POSIX.

-- 
H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)


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