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Re: More exim, and fcntl lock problems
- From: Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>
- To: "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre dot Humblet at ieee dot org>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 16:39:21 -0500
- Subject: Re: More exim, and fcntl lock problems
- References: <3C07F55F.5B2E669D@ieee.org>
"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
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