Re: is flock broken in 2.4 or 2.5 kernels or what does this mean?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
25 Jul 2002 02:28:41 +0100

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On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 17:08, David Ford wrote:
> (Alan)
> Actually I posted a "is sendmail on crack?" question last month when
> 8.12.5 was released and this was in the release notes. We got a bunch
> of confirmations that Linux flock() was broken due to the accounting.

Thanks. I now have the original discussion, the demonstration and a
patch Andrea believes fixes it.

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