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Re: flock ??

To: Nigel Rantor <wiggly at bogo dot co dot uk>
Subject: Re: flock ??
From: Assar Westerlund <assar at sics dot se>
Date: 09 Feb 1997 09:37:02 +0100
Cc: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
References: <Pine.LNX.3.93.970206145659.14411B-100000@deepsea.sys.web-uk.net>

Nigel Rantor <wiggly@bogo.co.uk> writes:
> Hmm, ok, simple question, is there flock? I have looked around the include
> files and can't find it. I know that Win32 can do it because I have seen
> the stuff about locking/lock/unlock and the whole issue of DOS machines
> required to load share.exe to use those features. My question is whether
> or not we have the UNIX calls or whether I would have to find out what the
> correct Win32 ones are.

There's no flock.  Use posix-style locking with fcntl instead.

/assar
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