rsync - Apr 2004 - large file support in 2.6.1

The large file support in configure tests for working file-locking.

    This may fail if you are building over NFS and the NFS locking isn't 
working.

    rsync doesn't actually use file-locking, so this test causes it to 
remove large-file support unnecessarily.

    A workaround might be to build on a local file system.

On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 11:45:47AM +0100, Gordon Lack
wrote:
> rsync doesn't actually use file-locking, so this test causes it to
> remove large-file support unnecessarily.
Rsync uses range-locking in its daemon code to implement the
"max connections" option.
> A workaround might be to build on a local file system.
I think some simple tweaking of the test function might make the test
better.  The appended C code attempts to create the lock file in /tmp
and falls back to creating the old conftest.dat if that didn't work.
If you try running this program, it should give you an exit status of
"1".

..wayne..
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