Bug 1149974

Summary:	/usr/bin/flock --timeout=0 not work
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Reinin Oyama <lenin>
Component:	util-linux	Assignee:	Karel Zak <kzak>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	20	CC:	jonathan, kzak
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Description Reinin Oyama 2014-10-07 05:22:34 UTC

Description of problem:
flock --timeout=0 lockfile ehco
Show error-message like this.
flock: timeout cannot be zero

it differs from document!
timeout=0 must be allowed!

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

util-linux-2.24.2-1.fc20.x86_64

How reproducible:

Allways

Steps to Reproduce:

flock --timeout=0 lockfile ehco

Actual results:

flock: timeout cannot be zero

Expected results:

Must be no error message!

Additional info:

No

Comment 1 Karel Zak 2014-10-07 10:18:56 UTC

You're right, the "timeout cannot be zero" nonsense was introduced 3 years ago.

Fixed by upstream commit c4604c38b503c8c46e50fc2048ebbcbcfcad3802, fedora package will be fixed ASAP. 

Thanks!

Comment 2 Karel Zak 2014-10-24 14:14:07 UTC

Fixed in v2.25.2 (f21)