On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Gregor Ibic wrote: > I cant, it is locked. It says resource deadlock avoided.
ok I browsed around a bit and looked at the kernel source, here's the real answer. Current (linux kernel 2.4.20) smbfs doesn't support locking at all. you may look at http://www.hojdpunkten.ac.se/054/samba to see some experimental patches though. NFS *does* support locking though. So if you see locking "working" with smbfs it is actually by accident and not by design. This means that it is very well possible to corrupt your DOS databases if you access them via smbfs, and there's nothing that DOSEMU can do about it. Now, why does a Win client access the file when DOSEMU "locks" it? This is because there actually is no lock at all! And the other way around, what happens is that: DOSEMU tries to apply a lock to the file, the filesystem fails, and the DOS app hence claims that access is denied. Bart - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
