Subj : CVS commit src/sbbs3/nope
To   : Digital Man
From : Deuce
Date : Mon Dec 27 2004 02:01 pm

  Re: CVS commit src/sbbs3/nope
  By: Digital Man to Deuce on Mon Dec 27 2004 02:05:00

 > I don't remember how we go onto this debate, but the fact remains that
 > cross-platform file and record locking has to be supported for mixed-OS
 > (Windows and *nix) Synchronet installations, and smbfs and cifs both suppose
 > do this. My tests (when they work) confirm that files opened with
 > deny-all/write access on Win32 or records locked on Win32 cannot be
 > opened/read/written on smbfs-Linux and vice versa. If it didn't work, I'd ge
 > data corruption. That has never been the problem with smbfs-Linux, just
 > system lock-ups. You seem to be insisting that this is impossible. If that's
 > the case then I should just give up now. :-(

Hrm?  Sorry,I was referring to the "Why does FreeBSD and Linux show the same
behaviour" stuff... based on the "There's no correcty 1:1 mapping of syscalls"
thing, it's entirely likely that similar or identical kludges are in place on
both systems. While certain bits are impossible, Synchronet doesn't do those
anymore.

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