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FW: fcntl call on win95




Many Regards,
Ian Collins

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Ian Collins 
> Sent:	Thursday, August 28, 1997 12:26 PM
> To:	'Gnu win32 mailer'
> Subject:	fcntl call on win95
> 
> I have a routine that write locks a file. The essential code is,
> 
> #include <fcntl.h>
> auto struct flock lck;
> auto int flc;
> auto int filedesc;
> 
> filedesc = open(filename, O_RDWR|O_CREAT, 0666);
> lck.l_type = F_WRLCK;
> lck.l_start = 0;
> lck.l_whence = 0;
> lck.l_len = 0;
> flc = fcntl(fildesc, F_SETLK, &lck);
> 
> The fcntl provides a write lock on Windows NT fine (on both FAT and
> NTFS) filesystems, but fails (flc == -1) on Windows 95.
> Can anyone help me on this?
> 
> Many Regards,
> Ian Collins
> 
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