Update on file-locking problems

Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.CSIRO.AU)
Tue, 4 Nov 1997 23:05:49 +1100


Hi, all. Well, I'm stumped. I've written a few test programmes in an
effort to stress the file-locking system, and they perform
flawlessly. This is odd because my 4th generation test programme tries
to emulate what mount(8) does fairly closely. I've included the source
for the test programmes below in case anyone is interested.
For comparison, using mount-2.7f with a patch so that the lockfile is
*never* removed, will occasionally corrupt /etc/mtab when shutting
down the automounter.
I have 13 mount maps. all tests done on a dual-PPro machine running
kernel 2.1.61 and libc 5.4.40.

Regards,

Richard....

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