in reply to Re: strange flock and alarm behavior
in thread strange flock and alarm behavior

At least some NFS implementations and locks don't mix too well. Several experts consider locks on NFS at least unreliable. Maybe things changed with newer NFS versions, but I would not bet on that.

Alexander

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