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

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

The following reply was made to PR bin/48351; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
To: Dennis Ferguson <dennis.c.ferguson%gmail.com@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, 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 17:19:46 -0400

 On Oct 29,  3:32pm, dennis.c.ferguson%gmail.com@localhost (Dennis Ferguson) 
wrote:
 -- Subject: Re: PR/48351 CVS commit: src/usr.bin/flock
 
 | Ah, maybe it's my fault for not providing a better example.  This
 | seems to work:
 | 
 | $ (                                                                          
 | > ./flock -s 0; echo $?
 | > ./flock -x 0; echo $?
 | > ./flock -s 0; echo $?
 | > ./flock -u 0; echo $?
 | > ) < /tmp/a_file
 | 0
 | 0
 | 0
 | 0
 | 
 | I think the thing being locked might need to be a regular file.
 
 On linux locking 0 on the shell works...
 
 christos