Jeff Johnson wrote:
> 2) Supporting asm locking on a myriad of embedded tool chains. Of course
> fcntl locking with BDB would have solved exactly the same problem.

I tried this a month or so ago and it was incredibly unreliable.  I
didn't have the time to track down the issues.

The symptom was that you could open and work w/ the database once.. then
the next time you tried it went into a lock recovery loop until you kill
-9'ed RPM.  (none of this was over NFS BTW.)  So for fcntl locking in
db4 to be usable, someone will really need to try and document the
gotchas.  (Unfortunately I didn't have time.)

--Mark