Subj : CVS commit src/sbbs3/nope
To   : Deuce
From : Digital Man
Date : Mon Dec 27 2004 01:43 pm

  Re: CVS commit src/sbbs3/nope
  By: Deuce to Digital Man on Mon Dec 27 2004 02:01 pm

 >  > 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 supp
 >  > 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
 >  > 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 tha
 >  > 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 syscall
 > thing, it's entirely likely that similar or identical kludges are in place o
 > both systems. While certain bits are impossible, Synchronet doesn't do those
 > anymore.

Ah, okay. Or both "smbfs" implementations came from the same source code at one
time? :-)

In either case, I misunderstood the point you were making. :-)

                                                  digital man

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