Re: flock broken?

Paul Jakma (paul@clubi.ie)
Sun, 9 May 1999 18:05:25 +0100 (IST)


On Sun, 9 May 1999, Manfred Spraul wrote:

Could someone compile the attached program, and
send me the results?

The attached program creates a small shm segment,
a lock file & uses flock() to synchronize the access to
the memory segment.
The probem is that the synchronization fails:
on UP: "./a.out 1000 10" fails after 5-10 second
on SMP (2*PII): "./a.out 1000 2" fails nearly immediately.

hi manfred,

it fails here aswell, within 3-5 seconds or less depending on the
args.

glibc-2.0.7-29
gcc version pgcc-2.91.60 19981201 (egcs-1.1.1 release)
2.2.7-ac2 with raid and devfs
amd k6 233
ext2.

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