Heads up to Julian sendmail 8.13 (upcoming release) Linux 2.4 Series and broken flock()

[David H.]

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Please first of all review
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0207.0/0212.html

It has the original text from sendmail.org and the explanation by some
kernel hackers.
I just wanted to give an early heads up that yet another lock method
might be needed.

Thanks

PS: in short...

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"> NOTE: Linux appears to have broken flock() again. Unless
 > the bug is fixed before sendmail 8.13 is shipped,
 > 8.13 will change the default locking method to
 > fcntl() for Linux kernel 2.4 and later. You may
 > want to do this in 8.12 by compiling with
 > -DHASFLOCK=0. Be sure to update other sendmail
 > related programs to match locking techniques.

 > Is it really broken or is sendmail smoking crack like when they said
 > that itimers in Linux didn't work?


It really is broken, and sendmail triggers it
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