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Re: Unreliable flock


Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!

> I guess you read that
> there's a way to use Windows mandatory locks, too.

Yes, if I compile my own program. But I'm not. I'm writing a shell script.
And /usr/bin/flock fails to lock a file. Even though the man claims that it
"uses an exclusive lock by default".


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Tuesday, April 5, 2016 05:06:19

Sorry for my terrible english...


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