is flock broken in 2.4 or 2.5 kernels or what does this mean?

From: John Covici (covici@ccs.covici.com)
Date: Tue Jul 23 2002 - 09:41:51 EST

In the latest release notes of sendmail I have read the following:

                NOTE: Linux appears to have broken flock() again. Unless
                        the bug is fixed before sendmail 8.13 is shipped,
                        8.13 will change the default locking method to
                        fcntl() for Linux kernel 2.4 and later. You may
                        want to do this in 8.12 by compiling with
                        -DHASFLOCK=0. Be sure to update other sendmail
                        related programs to match locking techniques.

Can anyone tell me what this is all about -- is there any basis in
reality for what they are saying?

Thanks. 

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         John Covici
         covici@ccs.covici.com
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