From: assar AT sics DOT se (Assar Westerlund)
Subject: Re: flock ??
9 Feb 1997 01:53:43 -0800
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Nigel Rantor <wiggly AT bogo DOT co DOT uk> writes:
> 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.

There's no flock.  Use posix-style locking with fcntl instead.

/assar
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