ntfsprogs under FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE not working?

[Florent Thoumie]

Le Lundi 21 mars 2005 à 13:58 +0100, Jilles Tjoelker a écrit :
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 12:24:34PM +0100, Florent Thoumie wrote:
> > Le Vendredi 18 mars 2005 à 09:25 -0800, Murray Stokely a écrit :
> > > I'm having trouble using ntfsls from a recently built
> > > sysutils/ntfsprogs port.  Is anyone successfully using this port?  The
> > > package is only 230k when built without GNOME VFS support, but it just
> > > doesn't seem to work.  I'd like to put this tool onto FreeBSD DVDs
> > > (and CDs if it fits).
> 
> > 	This simple patch makes ntfsls work fine, but I don't think
> > 	removing locks is a good solution.
> 
> > 	I'm cc'ing hackers@ to get review from people used to fcntl(2)
> > 	interface.
> 
> Yes, devfs does not support file locks. And according to POSIX, support
> for file locks on non-regular files is not mandatory. It also
> seems the support cannot easily be added because the annoying issue
> of the size of a device. Also this will not help you to get it running
> on currently existing versions of FreeBSD.
> 
> That said, the locking is useful in case people run two ntfs programs at
> the same time. You could use separate lockfiles but afaik there is no
> standard for lockfiles for block devices (there is for serial ports).

	Ok, I'll add the patch then, thanks for this information.

-- 
Florent Thoumie
flz at xbsd.org
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