On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 06:34:12PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> [...]
> I think this is because of broken linux NFS client, for which file
> creation isn't atomic (it can delay file creation on the server,
> instead of checking immediatly if the file already exists), making
> open(O_CREAT|O_EXCL) broken.
> On NetBSD shlock should be fine.

If that is the case our shlock manpage needs to be rewritten a bit,
quoting:

BUGS
     Does not work on NFS or other network filesystem on different systems be-
     cause the disparate systems have disjoint PID spaces.

> 
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> Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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Martin Weber