What's up with our stdout?

[Andrew Reilly]

On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 01:10:38AM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
> This doesn't seem to have anything to do with stdout.  F_SETLKW just
> seems to be broken on all regular files (and thus is unsupported for
> all file types).  The above works under the modified version of
> FreeBSD-5.2 that I use, but it fails with the documented errno EOPNOTSUPP
> under at least FreeBSD-6.0-STABLE.  Replacing STDOUT_FILENO by fd =
> open("foo", O_RDWR) gives the same failure.  Replacing FSETLKW by
> FSETLK or F_GETLK gives the same failure.

Thanks for the clarification.

Don't all of the databases rely on fcntl locks?  How can this be
broken?

Cheers,

-- 
Andrew