Re: File locking problems?

Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.CSIRO.AU)
Mon, 3 Nov 1997 22:45:01 +1100


Matthias Urlichs writes:

> >But, as I said, I disabled the code in mount which removes the
> >/etc/mtab~ lockfile. This means that the fcntl() locking will always
> >work on the same file. Or is there some other effect going on?
>
> Hmmm. Which file does your mount use to write the new mtab records to, then?

/etc/mtab.tmp
I'm using mount 2.7f.

Regards,

Richard....