/* ======================================================================== * Copyright 2008-2009 Mark Crispin * ======================================================================== */ /* * Program: Safe File Lock for Linux * * Author: Mark Crispin * * Date: 20 April 2005 * Last Edited: 18 May 2009 * * Previous versions of this file were: * * Copyright 1988-2006 University of Washington * * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. * You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * */ #undef flock #include #ifndef NFS_SUPER_MAGIC #define NFS_SUPER_MAGIC 0x6969 #endif int safe_flock (int fd,int op) { struct statfs sfbuf; char tmp[MAILTMPLEN]; int e; int logged = 0; /* Check for NFS because Linux 2.6 broke flock() on NFS. Instead of being * a no-op, flock() on NFS now returns ENOLCK. Read * https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=123415 * for the gruesome details. */ /* check filesystem type */ while ((e = fstatfs (fd,&sfbuf)) && (errno == EINTR)); if (!e) switch (sfbuf.f_type) { case NFS_SUPER_MAGIC: /* always a fast no-op on NFS */ break; default: /* allow on other filesystem types */ /* do the lock */ while (flock (fd,op)) switch (errno) { case EINTR: /* interrupt */ break; case ENOLCK: /* lock table is full */ sprintf (tmp,"File locking failure: %s",strerror (errno)); mm_log (tmp,WARN); /* give the user a warning of what happened */ if (!logged++) syslog (LOG_ERR,"%s",tmp); /* return failure if non-blocking lock */ if (op & LOCK_NB) return -1; sleep (5); /* slow down in case it loops */ break; case EWOULDBLOCK: /* file is locked, LOCK_NB should be set */ if (op & LOCK_NB) return -1; case EBADF: /* not valid open file descriptor */ case EINVAL: /* invalid operator */ default: /* other error code? */ sprintf (tmp,"Unexpected file locking failure: %s",strerror (errno)); fatal (tmp); } break; } return 0; /* success */ }