Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Reply-To: From: "Bill McCormick" To: Subject: RE: flockcyg Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 18:16:13 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <20030817221010.GA23111@emcb.co.uk> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 > > Cygwin doesn't have flock() or lockf() . > > -- Elfyn > Right, but there is a work-around, yes? Isn't that what uw-imap is doing in this case with flockcyg.h? If so, I'm curious if I might be able to use the same work-around. I found these related posts in the archive ... http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/1999-04/msg00026.html http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-05/msg01745.html ... among others that make me believe that there is a way. Bill --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.506 / Virus Database: 303 - Release Date: 8/1/2003 -- 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/