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kdb locking bug

jtkohl@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jtkohl@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri Jun 14 15:43:50 1991

I discovered a subtle POSIX file-locking bug in the database code.  The lock
file must be opened for writing in order to take an exclusive lock.
I've fixed it in the kdb5 code, and added a new kdb5 error code to kdb5_err.et.

[I discovered this while writing the v4/v5 database converter; see the next
trn]

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