Re: Locks used in the FAT file system are non-atomic and in fact,don't work on SMP systems

Jeff Merkey (jmerkey@timpanogas.com)
Thu, 26 Aug 1999 12:04:30 -0600


Sorry,

It's this damn Microsoft Outlook software in Windows 2000. They must
program something in that knows I am sending email to the linux kernel
mailing list. I have my default set to "Plain text", but for some reason it
keeps resetting itself to HTML. Perhaps I should use sendmail instead?
(Yikes .. get thee behind me satan!!!).

Jeff

----- Original Message -----
From: Matthew Kirkwood <weejock@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk>
To: Jeff Merkey <jmerkey@timpanogas.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 1999 12:03 PM
Subject: Re: Locks used in the FAT file system are non-atomic and in
fact,don't work on SMP systems

> Hi,
>
> No idea on the lock problem, but a tip of the day for you:
>
> * Don't send HTML to the linux-kernel list. Send plain ASCII,
> wrapped at 76 columns.
>
> Matthew.
>
>

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