Re: file locking

David Collier-Brown (davecb@Canada.Sun.COM)
Fri, 15 May 1998 07:40:37 -0400

Date:	Fri, 15 May 1998 07:40:37 -0400
From:	David Collier-Brown <davecb@Canada.Sun.COM>
To:	frank@ifi.unibas.ch
Subject: Re: file locking

Robert Frank wrote:
>
> I am looking in getting samba NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP compatible again.
>
> The first thing I noticed is that locking doesnt work as it should.

I can't actually speak to the problem, but I do
recollect that Henry Spencer once provided a
suite of locking-routine implementations for
portability to various vendor's platforms.

This is available as part of the cnews distribution,
although I don't recollect if the discussion I read
was there or not...

--dave (I hate all vendors. I am a vendor) c-b

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