Many servers create lock files on NFS instead of using POSIX locks due to the flakey NFS lock implementations. (Does any OS other than Solaris support NFS locks correctly???) The existance of the lock file indicates that another process has locked the main file.
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > "Rajan, Vivek K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > > Also, is there any NFS locking issue with SQLite database? Sometimes if > > a client opens the files and die, do we have problems reading the file > > again because NFS lock for the file still exists!? Is this true? > > > > There are no locking issues within SQLite, but there are > plenty of locking issues in many implementations of NFS. > SQLite expects file locks to work as defined in the Posix > specification. If locks do not work correctly, then neither > will SQLite. > -- > D. Richard Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
