Re: lockd does not work as expected

Ruben Schattevoy (schattev@imb-jena.de)
Sat, 27 Feb 1999 11:36:26 +0100

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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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