* Dan Lipofsky ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [991116 21:53]:
> I am using mutt-1.0pre3us on Red Hat 6.1 Linux. When ever I try to
> save a message to a file on a network file system I get
> fcntl: No locks available (errno = 37)
> If the file does not exist it successfully creates it but leaves it
> length zero. If I try to save to a file on the local file system it
> works fine. Can anyone help me out here?
> - Dan
I think the problem here lies with fcntl somehow wanting to make use of a
lock daemon on the nfs file server.
Someone correct me if wrong.
Note that NFS lock daemons have a history of sucking, on pretty much all
platforms. Userspace Linux NFS servers simply have _no_ lock daemon. The
kernel nfs daemon has a lock daemon, if you run it, though I'm not sure
it's perfect.
As a result, I pretty much always build mutt with --disable-fcntl
--enable-flock on linux. I don't know what I'm missing, but at least it
works.
-josh
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