595146 – sys-apps/portage: test for broken fcntl.lockf implementation, and fallback to fcntl.flock (needed for WSL)

Bug 595146 - sys-apps/portage: test for broken fcntl.lockf implementation, and fallback to fcntl.flock (needed for WSL)

Summary: sys-apps/portage: test for broken fcntl.lockf implementation, and fallback to...

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Core (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Blocks:	604854
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Reported:	2016-09-26 06:33 UTC by Zac Medico
Modified:	2017-02-10 18:51 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

See Also:	594284
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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.