Subject: Re: Cross-building from FreeBSD: file locking on METALOG
To: Andrew Reilly <andrew-netbsd@areilly.bpc-users.org>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 06/26/2006 10:54:24
On Jun 25, 2006, at 9:28 PM, Andrew Reilly wrote:
> That seems like a really neat idea, except that apparently
> fcntl(.., F_SETLOCKW,..) doesn't work on regular files on
> FreeBSD at the moment.
Seems like a pretty major issue for FreeBSD to have a broken
F_SETLKW. Seems like they're the odd man out; everything else that
we support as a build host has a working F_SETLKW, it is standards-
defined, so I don't see why we should bend over backwards to support
a utterly broken host system.
-- thorpej