Re: fcntl: No locks available (errno = 37)

[Roland Rosenfeld]

On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Dirk Pirschel wrote:

> > As a result, I pretty much always build mutt with --disable-fcntl
> > --enable-flock on linux.

> What is the difference between "fcntl" and "flock" ?

The man page of flock(2) on my Linux system says:

NOTES
       flock(2) does not  lock  files  over  NFS.   Use  fcntl(2)
       instead:  that  does  work  over NFS, given a sufficiently
       recent version of Linux and a server which supports  lock­
       ing.

So flock(2) may not be the best idea if you want to access your mail
via NFS...

Ciao

        Roland

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