Re: File locking in Linux?

David Bristow (dbristow@lynx.dac.neu.edu)
Tue, 20 Oct 1998 12:14:18 -0400


What is dot locking?

David Bristow
dbristow@lynx.dac.neu.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Hawkins <matt@mail.goldweb.com.au>
To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>
Date: Saturday, October 17, 1998 10:07 AM
Subject: Re: File locking in Linux?

>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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