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Date: | Sun, 02 Dec 2001 14:21:50 -0500 |
To: | Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu> |
From: | "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre DOT Humblet AT ieee DOT org> |
Subject: | Re: More exim, and fcntl lock problems |
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Thanks for the encouragements, Chuck. Exim is very well written and I was able to modify some macros to used gdbm. The database seems to work on Win98. So one Cygwin related problem remains: the interaction between fork and fcntl locking. Pierre At 04:39 PM 11/30/01 -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: >"Pierre A. Humblet" wrote: > >> That's where the bad news start, I tried Win98 and NT. >> 1) Under Win98 I hit issues that were traced to gdbm >> emulation of ndbm on FAT >> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-11/msg01793.html >> That looks hopeless to me. Please tell me I am wrong! > >Not totally. See cvs-1.10-1 announcement, and the patchfile within >cygwin's cvs-1.10-1-src tarball. Basically, there are two solutions; > 1) convert exim over to use the gdbm interface (only one file, no >worries about timestamp sync between two files, no hardlink/cp >problems). > 2) write your own wrapper functions for all "ndbm" calls, that thunk >to actual gdbm (not ndbm emulation in gdbm) calls. This is what I did >to get cvs repositories to host on FAT. > >--Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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