On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 07:53:32AM -0400, Nathan Vidican wrote: > After killing an smbd process, or occasionally after a process has died > itself, there remains a lock as indicated in an smbstatus output. > > The process ID tied to the file lock in the db is no longer active, yet the > db entry still exists. Is there a way to manually manipulate the file locks > db? If not, will any of these entries prohibit another smbd process from > handling the file which is indicated as locked? Or will a new process simply > validate the running/not running status of the process id indicated in the > db before proceeding itself?
Yes, that's what the smbd's do when finding an existing lock entry. They send a kill 0 signal to the process to validate its existence. Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
