[Tilesathome] Problem under windows again

[Carsten Möller]

spaetz schrieb:
> On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 03:44:38PM +0200, Carsten M?ller wrote:
>> This is version 10071 (Rapperswil) of tilesgen running on MSWin32, ID: 44407
>> - Using working directory C:\OSM\tilesAtLocal\temp
>> - Using process log file ..\tilesAtLocal\tah-process.log
>> - Keeping ZIP files after upload
>> [#0   0% zipping] Searching for tiles in C:\OSM\tilesAtLocal\temp...
>> [#0   0% zipping] captionless_12_673_2092.dir compressed by different 
>> process. skipping...
>> [#0   0% zipping] tile_12_673_2092.dir compressed by different process. 
> 
> the last 2 lines are crucial. they show that the 'flock' command failed. this happens in http://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/applications/rendering/tilesAtHome/Upload.pm line 103.
> 
> it puzzles me all the more as i have explicitely added a runtime check whether flock works on the box, just for windows. it's supposed to lock the file so no other t at h client can try to process it at the same time. i feel tempted to just bypass the thing for all windows boxes. according to the docs this works on all win >98...
> 
> spaetz
> 

Thank you for this slippy ;-) answer.
Yes I've already read sth. about the flock problem but
because I'm using XP and not 98 I thought it is
not my problem. Another thing is the empty
download (25 bytes). Is this a specific Windows problem
or is it already discussed here?

Regards

Carsten