Subject: Re: Why lock a file when reading?
From: wesley.craig@umich.edu
Date: Wed Mar 30 1994 - 14:23:06 EST
> From: kire@nada.kth.se (Jan-Erik M}ngs)
> To: netatalk-admins@umich.edu
> bg@nada.kth.se who has taken care of netatalk here sent me the
> following patch ("why lock a file while reading?"). Any comments, is
> this wrong?
Yes, it is wrong. You lock a file when reading to prevent others from
writing the file.
Since you're checking for errno == EACCESS, I assume that you're using
AFS -- AFS will return EACCESS when someone attempts to lock a file but
doesn't have the 'k' access bit.
:wes
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