[Dovecot] Re: Bug? 1.0.0-test28 NFS locking problems

William Yodlowsky wyodlows+dovecot at andromeda.rutgers.edu
Sat Jul 24 04:58:19 EEST 2004


On Friday, July 23, Matthias Andree wrote:

[snip]

> I find it a bit scary that a Solaris NFS locking problem is reported,
> Sun are the guys that paved the way for NFS locking, after all, so I'd
> tend to believe it's a site issue not a general Solaris issue.
>
> Is anyone else seeing fcntl locking problems on Solaris 8 for F_SETLKW
> ("block until lock obtained")?

I cannot reproduce this problem here.  Using the supplied test program,
the output is as expected:

	Locked with F_SETLKW
	Sleeping - try to lock same file from second process
	File closed

This is with Solaris 8 on both ends.




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