[Omake] Re: Locking and NFS

[Phil Endecott]

>> $ omake hello
>> Fatal error: exception Failure("Failed to lock the file .omakedb.lock: 
>> No locks available")
>> 
>> This is an NFS filesystem and it does not support locking.
>
> The problem here is that on your system for some reason the lockf call 
> results in errno set to ENOLCK (which is supposed to mean "the request 
> would cause the number of locks to exceed a system-imposed limit") 
> instead of the EOPNOTSUPP (which is what normally happens on those NFS 
> fylesystems).

>> Note that it takes several seconds for the above error to appear - I 
>> think there is some sort of timeout occuring.
>> 
> Hm, strange. What kind of operating system are you using? Are you sure 
> that your NFS partition is mounted without the locking support and the 
> error is not caused by the lockd malfunctioning somehow?

You are right; it seems that lockd was running but "statd", which I had 
never heard of before, was not running on the client.  That's now 
fixed, and OMake works.

Many thanks,

Phil.