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Date:      Thu, 22 Jun 2000 15:43:24 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com>
To:        stable@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: file locking
Message-ID:  <14674.27740.186808.162335@onceler.kcilink.com>
In-Reply-To: <200006221639.JAA06440@freeway.dcfinc.com>
References:  <200006221639.JAA06440@freeway.dcfinc.com>

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>>>>> "CRL" == Chad R Larson <chad@DCFinc.com> writes:

CRL> Guys, this seems like a bug, or at least a mis-feature, to me.
CRL> If a process locks a region of a file using the POSIX-style locks, a
CRL> subsequent attempt to use the BSD flock call to lock the whole file
CRL> fails.  This is arguably a silly thing to do, but still...

FWIW, this fails on BSD/OS 4.0.1 as well, so must be a generic BSD
issue.


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