Bug 595146

Summary:	sys-apps/portage: test for broken fcntl.lockf implementation, and fallback to fcntl.flock (needed for WSL)
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Zac Medico <zmedico>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	Keywords:	InVCS
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=594284
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	604854

Description Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2016-09-26 06:33:59 UTC

Since fcntl.lockf does not work on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), it would be nice to detect the breakage and fallback to fcntl.flock.

Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2016-09-26 06:55:31 UTC

Patch posted for review:

https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage-dev/message/560e54db2975aea5ff141f741271716a
https://github.com/gentoo/portage/pull/55

Comment 2 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2016-10-02 04:51:53 UTC

This is in the master branch:

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/commit/?id=5ef5fbaab88de47d4dbab333661d3525261d7633

Comment 3 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2017-02-10 18:51:41 UTC

Fixed in portage-2.3.3.