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Date:	Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:24:41 -0600
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According to Eric Blake on 7/21/2009 5:26 PM:
> I'm still trying to figure out why the close-on-exec cleanup appears to be 
> spuriously triggering the flock Event to unlock.  But my understanding is that 
> F_FLOCK locks should survive over exec, so the close-on-exec cleanup should 
> only trigger lock release on F_POSIX locks.

Correction - both flock and fcntl locks should survive exec, but only
flock can survive fork.

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Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net
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