On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 08:23:27AM -0400, Yannick Bergeron wrote: > We are experiencing this current problem: some users are locking Lotus Notes > files on a Samba share. When their pc crash (ex: power off the pc without > shutting down windows), the file is still locked. So when they boot up a few > mins after the crash, they can't open Lotus Notes because some files are still > locked by themself. So we need to kill the samba process. This is happening a > lots of time in a week and we are looking for a better solution. > > I just want to know how does Samba is working with this kind of situation? > (timeout maybe? if there is a timeout, after how many time?)
As an smbd process reads the locking record for a file, it does a kill(pid,0) on any stored lock owned by process <pid>, ensuring this process still exists. If it doesn't exist, it removes that record and ignores the lock. That's how the locking db is self-cleaning. There are no timeouts. Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
