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flock() question

Subject: flock() question
From: gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 13:13:03 -0400
In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0204181137490.4770-100000@kramer.thekramers.net>

I do not recommend using flock(2). 
First, I use it in the library functions for UTMP on Tru64 UNIX. The 
semantics of flock(2) changed between the 4.0 and 5.0 stream where I had to 
implement a 4.0 version of flock(2) on the 5.0 stream for the UTMP library 
functions.

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