Bernhard Sander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hi Grzegorz Prokopski 
> 
> > We want remote acces to an dos database application.
> > Everything's works just fine, everything but file locks ;(
> 
> The basic problem seems to be that Unix (and also Linux) doesn't know
> record locking (aka byte range locking), only file locking. But DOS
> database programs like clipper need record locking.
> Samba and Mars_nwe emulate record locking.

Nope.  Unix knows record locking & we emulate it.
Not the bsd flock call but sysv and I think posix  fcntl(F_GETLK, &
fcntl(F_SETLK calls

Eric

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