Re: Window Maker/WPrefs and NFS on potato
Marco d'Itri <md@linux.it> wrote:
> On Nov 13, "Noah L. Meyerhans" <frodo@morgul.net> wrote:
> >WPrefs, and I was able to save it. So, it would seem that this is a
> >problem with the errno value that is set from fcntl when it tries to
> >create a lock on an NFS mounted file. Can anybody more knowledgeable
>
> You are using a 2.2 kernel on the client and a 2.0 kernel on the server.
> You don't have fcntl locking available so you should mount the file
> system with -o nolock.
Not necessarily. nolock is nice for broken applications that don't deal with
failed locks. But sometimes you *do* want to see the errro to know that there
isn't really a lock there.
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