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| From: | Alexandre Duret-Lutz |
| Subject: | Re: autoconf 2.57b: locking fails over NFS |
| Date: | Thu, 25 Sep 2003 22:49:34 +0200 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
>>> "Paul" == Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes: Paul> Akim Demaille <address@hidden> writes: >> Would there be a nice solution? Paul> Perhaps the simplest solution would be to ignore that Paul> particular failure. But autom4te does need a working lock, or else it's easy to corrupt its cache. (Although I admit that having a lock everywhere except on NFS is still a progress wrt 2.57.) How about dropping flock() for a mkdir()-based lock? -- Alexandre Duret-Lutz
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