Various wrote:
...
> >> ...
> >>> There does not seem to be a good way to find out (e.g., autoconf test) if
> >>> a particular linux kernel has the 'old' or 'new' semantics of
> >>> flock_lock_file*(). The argument types of the functions have not changed.
> >> ...
> >>
> >> This sounds like it's a feature that is almost exactly
> >> tied to linux kernel version. Testing the Linux kernel
> >
> > Except for people like RedHat, Fedora, SuSe, who cherrypick patches.
> >
> >> should suffice to determine if the new locking semantics
> >> are true.
> >
> > Nope.
>
> indeed.
Fine. The vendors suck.
Moving right along...
-Marcus
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