[Fwd: [PATCH] glibc-2.2.5 utmp_file locking and lockingquestion]

[Amit D. Chaudhary]

Thanks, will pull these in.

Regards
Amit

----- Original Message -----
From: Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Amit D. Chaudhary <amitc@brocade.com>; <libc-alpha@sources.redhat.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2002 4:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Fwd: [PATCH] glibc-2.2.5 utmp_file locking and
lockingquestion]


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> > Roland McGrath wrote:
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> > > The only possible error should be EINTR.  But it does seem reasonable
to
> > > check for it.  Hmm, actually ENOLCK and EDEADLK might be possible too.
> > >
> > > Does anyone know a reason to ignore the fcntl result?
> >
> > No reason but that it seemed unnecessary.
>
> They may be obscure and vanishingly rare, but there are cases that could
fail.
> I have put the checks in.
>