Hi, On Apr 11, 2013, at 1:28, Rick Macklem <rmacklem at uoguelph.ca> wrote: > Error code 70 is ESTALE (or NFSERR_STALE, if you prefer). The server > replies with that when the file no longer exists. > > File locking doesn't stop a file from being removed, as far as I know. but the file is still there. Lars