Re: oaf locking bug ...

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs noisehavoc org>]

On 27Sep2001 12:05PM (-0400), Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> Michael Meeks <michael ximian com> writes:
> > 
> > 	We have to open the lockfile RW to take a the lock we need, the
> > fcntl was always failing silently;
> > 
> 
> Checking syscall return values - what a concept! ;-)
> 
> This is awesome that you guys have fixed this. I think it'll get rid
> of a lot of "random instability" bug reports.
> 

I'm grateful to Michael for finding a reproducible case and analyzing
the cause.

The interfaces need to be changed around some more to allow properly
reporting an exception, but that's less immediately pressing than this
problem.

 - Maciej