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  1. Bug #974664
  2. Comment #56

Comment 56 for bug 974664

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In , Tim (tim-redhat-bugs) wrote :

(In reply to comment #22)
> I will try this out with my original kmail problem when I have access to that
> desktop again in a few hours.

OK, the original kmail problem is fixed too. This appears simply to ignore the error it gets back from flock() anyway, once it actually returns :-)

Interestingly, it too attempts an exclusive lock on a read-only open of a file with read-write permission. Depending on how common this behaviour is, it might be less than useless to silently upgrade the NFS open to read-write on a flock(fd,LOCK_EX) IF (a) the file is actually writable AND (b) it is somehow possible to know that it *was* flock() requesting this operation and not fcntl().

...wanders off mumbling...