Folks, my apologies, I missed the relevent paragraph in the fcntl man page. For those who pointed out the samba technical mailing list, thankyou, I'm already there. :-) The answer of course is that file locks *are* cleaned up when a process dies. Thankyou, T. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tristan Ball" <tristanb@vsl.com.au> To: "sun managers list" <sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org> Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 5:24 PM Subject: Process cleanup. > Folks, what happens to fcntl file locks if a process dies unexpectedly? > > In particular, I have samba sub processes that die very occasionally, > however they appear to be leaving files (.tdb databases) locked, which then > means the other processes on the system can't get the locks. This is causing > whole series of problems. > > Sorry to sound rude, but I'm looking for "This is the answer, and heres my > reference", not "I think..." answers. :-) > > If there's a better mailing list for this, or a book or anything else, I'd > love to know about it. > > Will summarise. >Received on Mon Sep 3 02:33:02 2001
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