>>> "Paul" == Paul Eggert <eggert@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: Paul> Akim Demaille <akim@xxxxxxxx> writes: >> Would there be a nice solution? Paul> Perhaps the simplest solution would be to ignore that Paul> particular failure. But autom4te does need a working lock, or else it's easy to corrupt its cache. (Although I admit that having a lock everywhere except on NFS is still a progress wrt 2.57.) How about dropping flock() for a mkdir()-based lock? -- Alexandre Duret-Lutz
