Subject: locking

From: [email-masked] (David Lemson)
Date: 31 Aug 1995 20:16:38 GMT

I'm having a severe locking problem with Pine.  Our mail spool
directories are NFS mounted to 3 clients: Solaris 2.4 and AIX 4.1
machines.  Whenever anyone runs pine on a client, it creates a
<username>.lock file and the Pine session hangs.  It says "Opening
INBOX" and the .lock file has the current time as a timestamp.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?

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From: Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 20:26:50 -0700

> Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Almost certainly, the problem is not the lock files, but rather the
infamous lockd/statd daemons which are invoked by fcntl() locking.  It is
not a Pine bug; rather, Pine NFS access on SVR4 tickles an operating
system bug.  Scream at SUN and IBM for providing broken software.

I am responding to your similar bug report to [email-masked]
under separate cover, and will include a documentation file which
describes the locking problem.

-- Mark --

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