2.2.1c2 test_fcntl hangs

[Martin v. Loewis]

Gerhard Häring <gerhard at bigfoot.de> writes:

> AFAIK some filesystems have problems when being exported via NFS.
> (Older) reiserfs come to mind.

I share the same theory. I also found problems with locking over NFS
in test_fcntl - but it turned out that other programs trying to use
file locking on the same server blocked indefinitely as well.

If you merely want to run the test suite, you should disable
test_fcntl.

Regards,
Martin