Re: File locking in Linux?

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Sat, 17 Oct 1998 09:56:34 -0300

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In message <Pine.LNX.3.96.981016180301.1049E-100000@air.fast.net>, "Steven
N. H
irsch" writes:
+-----
| The usual suspects, fcntl and flock, are available. I believe that SysV
| mandatory locking has been supported since 2.0 as well (though I've never
+--->8

Minor nit: it's Xenix mandatory locking, from the SVR3.1/Xenix merge that
produced SVR3.2. It's also strongly deprecated in the SysV world.

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