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I'm not 100% sure of this in Linux, but flock(2) is an advisory lock, so 
that anyone can modify the file regardless of the lock state. 

I strongly recommend that you use fcntl(2) as your lock mechanism as it is=
 
semanticly and syntacticly standard across platforms. It locks across NFS.=
 
You can also lock a portion of a file.

On 18 Apr 2002 at 11:39, David Kramer wrote:

> 
> If I use the UNIX call flock() to lock a file, then someone tries to 
> append to that file like
> 	ps >> myfile
> or
> 	ps > myfile
> 
> Will the OS and shell respect the lock and block the write?
> 
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