Date:	Wed, 18 Apr 2001 14:13:47 +0300 (IDT)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To:	"S. Seven" <seniseven AT yahoo DOT com>
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On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, S. Seven wrote:

> Tracing the steps, there is a point where file locking
> is tested with fcntl(), which the djgpp system always
> returns as nonzero, and so the test cannot effectively
> complete.

Simply disable the code which locks the data base, or make it always 
return a success status, and it will all work.  File locking on MS-DOS is 
a joke.

Anyway, someone wrote code which implements somewhat limited locking for 
the next version of DJGPP.  When djdev204.zip is released, it will have 
this.

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