Locking file in cygwin

Hi, I am new to cygwin (and win32 programming in general), so if the answer to my question is covered somewhere else, please point me in the right direction. While porting one of my c++ libraries to cygwin, I stumbled over this: Calling fcntl (fd, F_GETLK, ...) returns ENOSYS (function not

RE: Locking file in cygwin

Original Message From: Vladislav Grinchenko Sent: 26 April 2005 14:22 While porting one of my c++ libraries to cygwin, I stumbled over this: Calling fcntl (fd, F_GETLK, ...) returns ENOSYS (function not implemented). I searched the archive and couldn't find anything appropriate

Re: Locking file in cygwin

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 09:21:40 -0400, Vladislav Grinchenko wrote: In short, this happens when I try to handle PID file locking to preclude multiple instances of the same program simultaneously running on a host. If there is a more preferable way of handling this task in cygwin/win32, I