Re: File locking in Linux?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 17 Oct 1998 00:48:49 +0100 (BST)


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

There has been for years.

The following are available

BSD fcntl locks
SYS5 lockf locks
POSIX fcntl locks

Also optionally there are the SYS5 mandatory locks.

Over network file systems 2.1.x supports the X/Open NFS lock daemon protocols

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