* Adeodato Simó: > Also, I have no idea what's the case for Debian: "On some versions of > Linux, a thread is not able to override locks created by a different > thread in the same process." Does this depend on the kernel, on libc, > or on something else?
This is probably the same problem as the svnserve problem described here: <http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2005-04/0355.shtml> IIRC, NPTL is fine, but LinuxThreads aren't. Unfortunately, I don't know what the solution for Subversion was.