bogoupgrade

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sun, 24 Aug 2003, Matthias Andree wrote:

> 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?

The CVS version current on August 10.

> > 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?

What do you mean by "fresh code"?

NFS locking is enabled by default.

Bob
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