TNG "no locking available" error, HP/UX

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

hi doug, good to hear from you again.

On Thu, 30 Mar 2000 nazard at dragoninc.on.ca wrote:

> On 30 Mar, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> > hi gregory,
> > 
> > regarding the requirement to run ./configure on a local filesystem, to
> > check locking, that's just the way it is.  it's that way in cvs main, it's
> > that way in 2_0.
> > 
> > this makes it clear that you cannot expect to run samba off of a non-local
> > file system, for example putting var/locks/ or private/ on a non-local
> > file system, i'm sorry: that is just a really dumb thing to do.

> That's just silly. The whole point of the test is to determine if the
> system supports a functional locking system. The filesystem you are
> compiling on (even the machine) has no bearing on where the software is
> actually installed/run. At minimum there should be a configure option
> on where to run the tests.

somebody send us a patch (samba-patches at samba.org)!
 
> Some people do have fully functional NFS locking. If they want to share

under those circumstances, the configure test will succeed and samba will
be happy, and off it goes.

i just had a quick word with andrew: apparently we used to put up a
warning, which used to be ignored, and people got data corruption as a
result.

so we terminate, now.