From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!mclure
Newsgroups: net.notes
Title: lockn combo lost - (nf)
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.5189
Posted: Sat Feb 19 23:08:02 1983
Received: Mon Feb 21 02:29:10 1983

#N:sri-unix:1000033:000:499
sri-unix!mclure    Feb 19 23:04:00 1983

Once in a blue moon, autoseq will die with "lockn combo lost".
Apparently in misc.c it is looping with a creat() on the particular
lock file and sleeping 2 seconds after each failure for a total of 10
tries.  It never seems to happen here with notes.  Could it have
something to do with autoseq not closing its file descriptors
appropriately?  creat() will fail if there are too many open.  Other
than that, I can't think of any reason why this should fail
occasionally. Anyone have a fix?

	Stuart