https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=66005

--- Comment #14 from Thomas Schwinge <tschwinge at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
(In reply to Eric Gallager from comment #12)
> Note that there's a gnulib module for flock:
> https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/flock.html

I'd see that one -- but it also says: "the replacement function does not really
work", so I don't think that's useful?

(In reply to Jakub Jelinek from comment #13)
> And fcntl in tclx.

Seen that, too -- but is TclX something that people actually have
available/installed?  (Rainer?)

> Anyway, I think choosing between flock(1) and some
> python file locking would be better than using perl which is only needed in
> maintainer mode and not otherwise.

Rainer, would a 'python3' variant work for you?

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