Re: Bug#43529: debian-policy: mail locking in Debian is _not_ NFS safe
On Aug 26, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ualberta.ca> wrote:
>> But only fcntl() locking is not enough, because Linux 2.0.* doesn't
>> support this over NFS and then we have no locking over NFS.
>
>And linux 2.2.x with a userland server also does not support fcntl
>locking, it generates an annoying kernel message and fails with ENOLCK.
Fine, then users should not read mail from 2.2 servers with user space
nfsd, because it is not reliable.
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ciao,
Marco
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