file locking problems on DOS app

[Mike Rambo]

Chris Watt wrote:
> 
> At 01:37 PM 10/23/00 -0400, Mike Rambo wrote:
> 
> >Is there any solution to this problem?
> 
> IMHO Start by turning oplocks off. This will probably not get rid of all
> race conditions, but if the program doesn't do much file I/O this should
> help.
> --

kernel oplocks, oplocks, locking, fake oplocks, veto oplock files ...,
were all part of the various combinations that I tried - unfortunately
they were of no help.  ICBW, but it appears MSDOS apps don't support
anything but the DENY mode locks anyway - which is what the 'share modes
=' option affects.

Any other ideas?  It looks like I've got this week to solve this.  If I
can't - that server will have to go NT and it'll probably end the
experiment with Linux here - the folks above me are NT centric and
skeptical already.

-- 
Mike Rambo
mrambo at lsd.k12.mi.us