Re: File locking in Linux?

Matthew Hawkins (matt@mail.goldweb.com.au)
Sat, 17 Oct 1998 08:29:15 +1000


On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Greaves Tristan TM wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> A brief question really. What is the status of file locking support
> in Linux at the moment? Is there any?

Linux supports all three kinds of file locking I'm aware of, and has for
too many years to remember.

Check the man pages for flock and fcntl.

(dot-locking of course doesn't have a man page ;)

-- 
Matt

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