# SYNOPSIS # # AMANDA_SETUP_FILE_LOCKING # # OVERVIEW # # Set up file locking support. Four locking mechanisms are available: # POSIX_FCNTL - use fcntl(). The full job. # FLOCK - use flock(). Does just as well. # LOCKF - use lockf(). Only handles advisory, exclusive, # blocking file locks as used by Amanda. # LNLOCK - Home brew exclusive, blocking file lock. # # For the chosen method, WANT_AMFLOCK_mech is defined and set up as an # AM_CONDITIONAL. Also, LOCKING, which contains the mechanism, is substituted. # AC_DEFUN([AMANDA_SETUP_FILE_LOCKING], [ AC_CHECK_HEADERS( fcntl.h \ sys/fcntl.h \ sys/types.h \ sys/file.h \ unistd.h \ ) # find a working file-locking mechanism. # Note: these all use AC_TRY_LINK to make sure that we can compile # and link each variant. They do not try to test the variants -- # that is left to runtime. LOCKING="no" # check POSIX locking AC_CACHE_CHECK( [whether POSIX locking (with fcntl(2)) is available], amanda_cv_posix_filelocking, [ AC_TRY_LINK([ #if HAVE_SYS_TYPES_H # include #endif #if HAVE_UNISTD_H # include #endif #if HAVE_FCNTL_H # include #endif ], [ struct flock lock; lock.l_type = F_RDLCK; lock.l_start = 0; lock.l_whence = SEEK_CUR; lock.l_len = 0; return fcntl(1, F_SETLK, &lock); ], [ amanda_cv_posix_filelocking="yes" ],[ amanda_cv_posix_filelocking="no" ]) ]) if test "x$amanda_cv_posix_filelocking" = xyes; then AC_DEFINE(WANT_AMFLOCK_POSIX,1,[Define to use POSIX (fcntl()) for file locking]) WANT_AMFLOCK_POSIX="yes" LOCKING="POSIX_FCNTL" fi AM_CONDITIONAL(WANT_AMFLOCK_POSIX, test x"$WANT_AMFLOCK_POSIX" = x"yes") # check flock-based (BSD) locking AC_CACHE_CHECK( [whether flock locking is available], amanda_cv_flock_filelocking, [ AC_TRY_LINK([ #if HAVE_SYS_FILE_H # include #endif ], [ return flock(1, LOCK_SH); ], [ amanda_cv_flock_filelocking="yes" ],[ amanda_cv_flock_filelocking="no" ]) ]) if test "x$amanda_cv_flock_filelocking" = xyes; then AC_DEFINE(WANT_AMFLOCK_FLOCK,1,[Define to use flock(2) for file locking]) WANT_AMFLOCK_FLOCK="yes" LOCKING="FLOCK" fi AM_CONDITIONAL(WANT_AMFLOCK_FLOCK, test x"$WANT_AMFLOCK_FLOCK" = x"yes") # check lockf-based (SVR2, SVR3, SVR4) locking AC_CACHE_CHECK( [whether lockf(3) locking is available], amanda_cv_lockf_filelocking, [ AC_TRY_LINK([ #if HAVE_UNISTD_H # include #endif ], [ return lockf(1, F_LOCK, 0); ], [ amanda_cv_lockf_filelocking="yes" ],[ amanda_cv_lockf_filelocking="no" ]) ]) if test "x$amanda_cv_lockf_filelocking" = xyes; then AC_DEFINE(WANT_AMFLOCK_LOCKF,1,[Define to use lockf(3) for file locking.]) WANT_AMFLOCK_LOCKF="yes" LOCKING="LOCKF" fi AM_CONDITIONAL(WANT_AMFLOCK_LOCKF, test x"$WANT_AMFLOCK_LOCKF" = x"yes") # check our homebrew hardlink-based locking (requires hardlinks) AC_CACHE_CHECK( [whether link(2) is available for locking], amanda_cv_lnlock_filelocking, [ AC_TRY_LINK([ #if HAVE_UNISTD_H # include #endif ], [ return link("/tmp/foo", "/tmp/bar"); ], [ amanda_cv_lnlock_filelocking="yes" ],[ amanda_cv_lnlock_filelocking="no" ]) ]) if test "x$amanda_cv_lnlock_filelocking" = xyes; then AC_DEFINE(WANT_AMFLOCK_LNLOCK,1,[Define to use link(2) to emulate file locking.]) WANT_AMFLOCK_LNLOCK="yes" LOCKING="LNLOCK" fi AM_CONDITIONAL(WANT_AMFLOCK_LNLOCK, test x"$WANT_AMFLOCK_LNLOCK" = x"yes") if test x"$LOCKING" = "no"; then # this shouldn't happen, and is *bad* if it does AC_MSG_ERROR([*** No working file locking capability found!]) fi AC_SUBST(LOCKING) ])