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Date: | Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:31:04 +0100 |
From: | Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> |
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Subject: | Re: Problem getting flock with timeout to work |
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On Mar 12 15:40, Robert Klemme wrote: > Hi, > > I searched the archives but could not find any related issue. My > problem is this: I use flock with a timeout but apparently the timeout > does not work, i.e. flock waits longer than specified. Script is > attached. Output is here: The flock implementation in Cygwin 1.5.25 is not very sophisticated and uses direct calls to the Windows mandatory file locking calls. The next major release Cygwin 1.7 has a completely new implementation of file locking (fcntl, flock, lockf) providing advisory file locking. If you could give it a try, I'd be glad to have a tester for this code. Please start here: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2009-03/msg00043.html Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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