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Andreas Liebscher

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May 26, 1995, 3:00:00 AM5/26/95
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Hi!

I have a problem with MTOOLS. mdir, mread, mformat work well, but using
mwrite or mcopy results in the following error-message:

Device "/dev/rfd1440" busy

Who can help me?

Thanx

Andreas

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Jim Wight

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May 30, 1995, 3:00:00 AM5/30/95
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lieb...@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Andreas Liebscher) writes:

>I have a problem with MTOOLS. mdir, mread, mformat work well, but using
>mwrite or mcopy results in the following error-message:

>Device "/dev/rfd1440" busy

>Who can help me?

I recently had this problem on a NetBSD 1.0 system with mtools 2.0.7. The
problem was that the flock call in lock_dev (init.c) was failing with an
EOPNOTSUPP error. However, lock_dev treats all errors alike and init prints
`Device "xxx" is busy' irrespective of the problem. I simply got round it by
turning lock_dev into a noop by commenting out the flock call.

Jim
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