This patch enables HDF5-1.10 to be built and run on file systems that have file locking disabled. It removes the flock() call and disables two tests in swmr.c that test the file locking scheme. To obtain the patch download: file-lock-removal.diff Apply the patch by running 'patch -p0 < file-lock-removal.diff' in the HDF5-1.10.0-patch1 source code directory.