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Re: how to determine that UNIX Advisory lock availability
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Richard Bos |
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Re: how to determine that UNIX Advisory lock availability |
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Sun, 3 Aug 2003 20:55:10 +0200 |
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Paul, Thamer and Russ thank you for providing your thoughts and tips about how
to deal with this issue.
Op zondag 3 augustus 2003 04:14, schreef Russ Allbery:
> Richard Bos <address@hidden> writes:
> > No one? No hint, advice or what so ever...?
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> Most all the code I've worked with assumes that fcntl locking is available
> if fcntl is available. If you need to support pre-POSIX systems, you
> should fall back on flock and lockf in that order, but these days, it's
> pretty safe to assume that any Unix system has fcntl.
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> I don't know anything about Windows in this area.
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Richard Bos
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