Re: [PATCH] A little wad of patches for 2.3.10

Matthew Wilcox (Matthew.Wilcox@genedata.com)
Tue, 27 Jul 1999 15:06:05 +0200


On Wed, Jul 21, 1999 at 11:53:46PM -0700, david parsons wrote:
> * Puts back old-style fcntl locking, so that old a.out gdbm libraries
> won't explode and die.

I thought this was taken out because it was a broken design and could
lead to data corruption? Could someone who knows please enlighten me?

-- 
Matthew Wilcox <willy@bofh.ai>
"Windows and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of
specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a
painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture." - N Stephenson

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