* Florian Weimer: > * Adeodato Simó: > >> Also, I have no idea what's the case for Debian: "On some versions of >> Linux, a thread is not able to override locks created by a different >> thread in the same process." Does this depend on the kernel, on libc, >> or on something else? > > This is probably the same problem as the svnserve problem described > here: > > <http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2005-04/0355.shtml> > > IIRC, NPTL is fine, but LinuxThreads aren't.
I intended to write the opposite: file locks are a per-process resource in NPTL, so NPTL probably has the problems, and LinuxThreads doesn't.
