[Mono-devel-list] sn.exe & file locking problem on Solaris

[Bernie Solomon]

I have discovered that sn doesn't work on Solaris because of a file locking
issue.

The file being signed ends up being mapped in memory (to gets its
AssemblyName)
and then a fcntl(F_SETLK) is attempted and this fails with EAGAIN. This
works
on Linux. Looking at the man pages Solaris (2.8) just says the fcntl fails
if the file
is memory mapped. Linux adds "by another process". So both are behaving as
expected.

The question is how to address this - for my own use for the moment I just
ignore
the EAGAIN failure and go on and the signing succeeds. I can't immediately
think
of a good alternative to this. I think sn itself shouldn't have to change to
cope with
this. Anyone have alternatives?

Bernie Solomon