sqlite defect

[jojelino]

On 2013-07-19 PM 8:30, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> A valid testcase would help a lot, though.  What you meant to do
> was calling flock with LOCK_EX|LOCK_NB.
>
that's what exactly sqlite3 that uses the mandatory-locking did. 
reproducing the behavior was i meant to do.
> And then again, your testcase works as designed.  Not by me, but by
> Microsoft.  You can't overwrite an existing lock, even if hold by the
> same file handle.  See http://cygwin.com/cygwin-api/std-notes.html
>
Yes. the testcase works without mandatory locking. so i hope next 
sqlite3 release doesn't use mandatory locking feature of cygwin. someone 
who have plenty of time to waste digging into sqlite3 source code would 
come with workaround to the problem.
>
> Corinna
>


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