Bug 4516 - File Locking Broken
Summary: File Locking Broken
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: nfs-server
Version: 6.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Cristian Gafton
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Reported: 1999-08-13 20:52 UTC by Steve Wills
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 1999-08-28 00:07:19 UTC
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Description Steve Wills 1999-08-13 20:52:47 UTC 
My mail client (mutt, running on 6.0) is unable to lock my
mailbox files (mbox format) across NFS from a 6.0 NFS
server.

Steve
Comment 1 Cristian Gafton 1999-08-28 00:07:59 UTC 
are you running lockd and statd on the client machine? Locking over
NFS is evil anyway and it is useless anyway, since it is anything
*but* atomic. Use imap.

Or come by my desk and show me a reproductible scenario so I can dig
into the problem.

------- Additional Comments From   08/30/99 12:35 -------
I actually managed to get this working by using the "lock" option to
mount.

Sorry,
Steve
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