From: wiggly AT bogo DOT co DOT uk (Nigel Rantor) Subject: flock ?? 6 Feb 1997 14:08:05 -0800 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Sender: wiggly AT deepsea DOT sys DOT web-uk DOT net Original-To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Hmm, ok, simple question, is there flock? I have looked around the include files and can't find it. I know that Win32 can do it because I have seen the stuff about locking/lock/unlock and the whole issue of DOS machines required to load share.exe to use those features. My question is whether or not we have the UNIX calls or whether I would have to find out what the correct Win32 ones are. At the moment I am trying to come up with a couple of IO manipulators for streams so that you can just pass manipulators such as, lock/lock(attempts,timeout) and unlock() just as you would endl setprecision setfill and their like. So I need a reliable way to lock files and I would rather take advantage of system calls rather that (eeeuuughh) use temp files. Just so you know what I needed flock for. Or indeed lockf, I have read someone looking for this (BSD??) call, I use Linux but if they are the same, functionally, then thats what I need. You get the idea. Any suggestions gratefully accepted, Nige p.s. Is that mail loop really gone now? Nigel Rantor - WEB Ltd e-mail - nigel AT web DOT co DOT uk / wiggly AT bogo DOT co DOT uk tel - (+44|0)181-960-3050 fax - (+44|0)181-960-0825 "We challenge one another to be funnier and smarter.... It's the way friends make love to one another." - Annie Gottlieb - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".