broken flock()

From: David Ford (david+cert@blue-labs.org)
Date: Fri Jun 28 2002 - 12:02:59 EST

>From http://sendmail.org/

NOTE: Linux appears to have broken flock() again. Unless
        the bug is fixed before sendmail 8.13 is shipped,
        8.13 will change the default locking method to
        fcntl() for Linux kernel 2.4 and later. You may
        want to do this in 8.12 by compiling with
        -DHASFLOCK=0. Be sure to update other sendmail
        related programs to match locking techniques.

Is it really broken or is sendmail smoking crack like when they said that itimers in Linux didn't work?

David

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