On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Stephen Pitts wrote:
> Wordperfect (evidently using flock()) works fine. An strace on kexpress,
> however, reveals that gdbm uses fcntrl! Perhaps I'll look into it and
> submit a patch at some point.
It's possble that the NFS client software in the kernel simply translates
fc
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 02:13:39AM -0400, William T Wilson wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Stephen Pitts wrote:
>
> > doesn't work. I think that it is trying to lock the files in some
> > non-NFS compatible way.
>
> You have to run lockd if you want locking to work over NFS. Even so,
> locking sti
On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Stephen Pitts wrote:
> doesn't work. I think that it is trying to lock the files in some
> non-NFS compatible way.
You have to run lockd if you want locking to work over NFS. Even so,
locking still doesn't work right (i.e. it still leaves open the
possibility of race conditi
>
> Are there any workarounds to these NFS locking problems?
kexpress can be fixed by mailing the author and helping him fix it -- source is
a great thing.
WP8 I am surprised fails, we used it on Suns where everything is nfs.
I mount /home over NFS from another Linux machine. Most programs are
fine with it, albeit mutt is a little slow reading a 1000 message
debian-user in Maildir format. However, I have two programs in
particular that don't seem to like this. kexpress, a KDE-based
newsreader, and Wordperfect 8. WP8 com
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