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Re: autoconf 2.57b: locking fails over NFS
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: autoconf 2.57b: locking fails over NFS |
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24 Sep 2003 10:58:33 -0700 |
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Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:
> On some systems (eg. Linux) flock(2) does not work over network, but Perl
> prefers that over fcntl(2) if it exists. So autoconf may fail on NFS if
> the filesystem has been mounted with locking enabled.
Thanks. What error code does flock return in that case?
Perhaps we can detect that particular failure, and try fcntl instead.