On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Dave Kleikamp wrote:

> I don't think the -O option would affect the fcntl or flock functions.
> The case-insensitivity is the big factor with the -O flag.  I don't know
> anything about emerge, but if it is trying to use file names that only
> differ by case, such as fcntl.py and FCNTL.py, they will refer to the
> same file.  I suspect that this may be causing the problem.

OK, this makes sense, I should have noticed that myself. Although I
don't know much about the workings of Python, there are FCNTL.py and
fnctl.so in /usr/lib/python2.3/, probably those are confused when
queried case-insensitively.

But if "-O" does nothing else why am I not able to get _any_ access to
the JFS partition from OS/2 when formatted without the "-O" switch?  A
case-sensitive FS should only be a problem for running programs under
OS/2, because e.g. DLLs are always referenced in upper case. For
datafiles it should not matter, or am I wrong there?

Anyway, thanks for solving that mystery!

Cheers,
   Peter.
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