Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
Greetings friends,
I wonder if someone would be kind enough to enlighten me about the
semantics of the flock(2) function. I have RTFM'd, and I am sad to
say that I am still rather mystified that flock() doesn't seem to
do what it is documented as doing. (I am testing
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], you wrote:
From the flock manpage:
...file descriptors duplicated through dup(2) or fork(2) do not result
in multiple instances of a lock, but rather multiple references to the
same lock.
You're basically trying to place a lock you already hold, making the
Greetings friends,
I wonder if someone would be kind enough to enlighten me about the
semantics of the flock(2) function. I have RTFM'd, and I am sad to
say that I am still rather mystified that flock() doesn't seem to
do what it is documented as doing. (I am testing it on 4.10-RELEASE,
by the
Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
Greetings friends,
I wonder if someone would be kind enough to enlighten me about the
semantics of the flock(2) function. I have RTFM'd, and I am sad to
say that I am still rather mystified that flock() doesn't seem to
do what it is documented as doing. (I am testing
