Re: WARNING: smbfs and locking -- Mega-oversimplification ...

2003-02-11 Thread Bryan J. Smith
On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 19:31, Bart Oldeman wrote: > there are still some differences between POSIX and DOS locks though: Yeah, I mega-oversimplified in this post. Sorry. -- Bryan J. Smith | Peace is a fruitless endeavor http://thebs.org | When a defeated aggressor Enginee

WARNING: smbfs and locking

2003-02-11 Thread Reinhard Karcher
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 10:07:27AM -0200, Anderson Pereira Ataides wrote > > NFS *does* support locking though. > I tried to mount a nfs resource and two linux boxes can't see locks made by > each other. That means a file locked in a linux box is not seen by the other > Linux box. Am I missing so

Re: WARNING: smbfs and locking

2003-02-11 Thread Anderson Pereira Ataides
> NFS *does* support locking though. I tried to mount a nfs resource and two linux boxes can't see locks made by each other. That means a file locked in a linux box is not seen by the other Linux box. Am I missing something? Reading dosemu docs, it's written that I must mount nfs nolock. What do

Re: WARNING: smbfs and locking -- POSIX v. CIFS locking,and how DOS doesn't do CIFS locking (bad things man)

2003-02-10 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Bryan J. Smith wrote: > > NFS *does* support locking though. > > Yes, and it does it in a way that is far more "DOS-like" -- one write lock per file. there are still some differences between POSIX and DOS locks though: DOS has 6 kinds of locks: * COMPATIBILITY * DENY_NONE *

Re: WARNING: smbfs and locking -- POSIX v. CIFS locking, and how DOS doesn't do CIFS locking (bad things man)

2003-02-10 Thread Bryan J. Smith
Quoting Bart Oldeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > ok I browsed around a bit and looked at the kernel source, here's the > real answer. > Current (linux kernel 2.4.20) smbfs doesn't support locking at all. > you may look at > http://www.hojdpunkten.ac.se/054/samba > to see some experimental patches thoug

WARNING: smbfs and locking (was RE: [PATCH] (locking) (was Re: dosemuand CLIPPER locks (again))))

2003-02-10 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Gregor Ibic wrote: > I cant, it is locked. It says resource deadlock avoided. ok I browsed around a bit and looked at the kernel source, here's the real answer. Current (linux kernel 2.4.20) smbfs doesn't support locking at all. you may look at http://www.hojdpunkten.ac.se/