Joachim F. Selinger wrote: > Hi! > > Maybe a stupid question, but I'm at a loss with two programs. > > 1. Sylpheed Mail doesn't handle incoming mails correctly with it's cache > files. I wonder if the file locking mechanism in JFS is causing > trouble here. > 2. VMWare 2.0 keeps asking me if the used FS, namely JFS, supports file > locking to lock its configuration file. > > Does JFS support file locking? Does it do something strange there?
File locking is handled in the VFS layer of the kernel. I don't think that any of Linux's local file systems have any specific code to handle file locking, and JFS is no exception. The file locking on JFS should be the same as any other Linux file system. What specifically make you suspect a file locking problem. Does Sylpheed run multi-threaded? -- David Kleikamp IBM Linux Technology Center _______________________________________________ Jfs-discussion mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/mailman/listinfo/jfs-discussion
