Re: PR/48351 CVS commit: src/usr.bin/flock

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

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From: christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
To: Dennis Ferguson <dennis.c.ferguson%gmail.com@localhost>, 
gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: PR/48351 CVS commit: src/usr.bin/flock
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 14:25:13 -0400

 On Oct 29, 12:46pm, dennis.c.ferguson%gmail.com@localhost (Dennis Ferguson) 
wrote:
 -- Subject: Re: PR/48351 CVS commit: src/usr.bin/flock
 
 | 
 | On 29 Oct, 2013, at 12:05 , Christos Zoulas <christos%netbsd.org@localhost> 
wrote:
 | > XXX: still flock -s 0 fails with EINVAL, why?
 | 
 | Does it stop if you do a flock -u 0 first?
 | 
 | I see code in the kernel to handle upgrading a lock from shared
 | to exclusive, but I don't see anything to deal with downgrading
 | from exclusive to shared (though I may be missing something).
 
 Nope, we need some kernel work I guess:
 
 [2:24pm] 2544>flock -u 0
 Exit 1
 [2:24pm] 2545>flock -s 0
 Exit 1
 
 christos