Re: dotlocking causes problems when fchdir() fails

[Lars Hecking]

> (*--For what it's worth, the man page says, "fchdir() is 
> provided as a performance enhancement and is guaranteed to fail 
> under certain conditions.")

 The man page continues to say

     Applications which use this system
     call must be coded to detect  this  failure  and  switch  to
     using chdir() from that point on.

 which might be important for fixing this.