2.2.1c2 test_fcntl hangs

Gerhard Häring gerhard at bigfoot.de
Sat Apr 6 17:47:04 EST 2002


Jochen Küpper wrote in comp.lang.python:
> On 06 Apr 2002 23:57:46 +0200 Martin v Loewis wrote:
> 
> Martin> "Jochen Küpper" <jochen at unc.edu> writes:
> 
>>> | Traceback (most recent call last):
>>> |   File "Lib/test/test_fcntl.py", line 38, in ?
>>> |     rv = fcntl.fcntl(f.fileno(), fcntl.F_SETLKW, lockdata)
>>> | KeyboardInterrupt
>>> `----
>>> 
>>> This is RedHat-7.0 with all updates + gcc-3.0.4. Python is
> 
> Martin> On a local file system, or through NFS? 
> 
> Through NFS, mounted with /default/ from a RedHat-7.1 machine...
> 
> Martin> Is there any chance that anybody else was holding locks to the
> Martin> test file at the same time?
> 
> No, I don't think anybody else was holding a lock on that file, as
> this is inside my $HOME hierarchy.

AFAIK some filesystems have problems when being exported via NFS.
(Older) reiserfs come to mind.

Gerhard



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