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Re: fcntl and file locking

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Horowitz)
Wed Mar 29 10:58:51 1995

To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: 29 Mar 1995 15:41:33 GMT
From: marc@cam.ov.com (Marc Horowitz)

>>    Is there an answer to my dilemma?

It's a sunos bug.  locking doesn't work in tmpfs.  You can either
disable the locking (opening yourself up to a potential race), use a
different filesystem for your credential caches (make sure not to use
a networked or exported filesystem), or stop using tmpfs.

		Marc

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