Cyrus file locking issues

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Rob Siemborski wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, John C. Amodeo wrote:
> > We've run into this problem on Linux and it was determined glibc was most
> > likely the problem.  John Wade wrote a file locking patch for 2.0.16 that has
> 
> Of course, the real answer is "find the bug in the kernel/glibc" (which
> is why we didn't take the patch).

And that's why I took the patch for Debian ;-)  If I were to wait for a
kernel/glibc fix...

Anyway, it is probably fixed in glibc 2.3, but I don't care.  The patch adds
extra resilience against locking bugs, and that's always interesting...

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  Henrique Holschuh