bogoupgrade

[Matthias Andree]

Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us> writes:

> Perhaps the problem has something to do with bogofilter's locking
> tests in the test suite failing randomly when the current directory is
> a NFS mount.

Which was the last version you've seen break like this?

> I have seen this with a Solaris 9 NFS server & Solaris 2.5 & FreeBSD
> 5.0 NFS clients.  This is not to say that the problem is isolated to
> NFS.  NFS increases lock/access durations so it may bring locking bugs
> to light faster.
>
> When I run the test suite, there is about a 50% chance that the second
> lock test will fail.

Well if FreeBSD 5.0 client-side locking fails, that's no surprise for
me, it's fresh code. Does it need special mount options perhaps?

I don't know much about Solaris 2.5 NFS either, the versions I can
access are 2.6 intel and 8 SPARC.

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Matthias Andree