On Sep 28, Nathaniel Daw wrote
> So enough with the good news. I'm not sure why this should be
> necessary -- it stops Wordperfect from calling fcntl(F_SETLK) on all
> kinds of files when it opens them, and getting an EINVAL for reasons
> unbeknownst to me. I haven't looked deeply into the compat source or
> the kdump for this one, but are there known problems with the
> compat_linux fcntl locking code?

I've run in this problem too when trying to install staroffice.
Some printf's in linux_file.c should be enougth to track down the problem,
but I don't have the time to work on this now.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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