On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 04:56:42PM -0300, Flávio Eler de Melo wrote > Anyone has an idea of where in Dosemu sources I can find the section > concerning files lock scheme? > > I?ve got a trouble with files lock scheme in Dosemu. I have a Clipper > database served by a Slackware NFS server. When I access this database from > two different remote clients running a Clipper application under FreeDos > with Dosemu, a certain record inserted in the database by one client is > overwritten by another record inserted by the other one. > I figured out by means of a friend advice that this is a problem of the file > lock scheme, namely: the Dosemu file lock process is based upon an Heuristic > method so that one Clipper Application client running under an instance of > Dosemu does not detects that another Dosemu is already locking a file via > LAN for recording some data. >
Which NFS-version do you use? You need at least nfsV3 for locking. Reinhard - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
