Re: Pre2.0-8 & Sendmail
Alan Cox (alan@cymru.net)
Fri, 31 May 1996 09:41:48 +0100 (BST)
> You might want to reconsider your recommendation for flock() as the
> standard. I agree that mixed locks are a bad thing, but standardizing on
> flock means anyone wanting to try doing locking over NFS will have to
> maintain custom versions of the system libraries. Debian has already
> changed their gdbm to use fcntl() locking.
fcntl() locking is not done over NFS under Linux either. We don't yet have
NFS lock support although I think Olaf and co had some stuff near enough
ready to use ?
Alan