Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 13:18:18 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Richard Dawe wrote:

> SunOS 5.5.1 aka Solaris 2.5.1 returns EAGAIN.
> 
> glibc 2.1.3 on RedHat 6.2 has lockf() in its headers -
> /usr/include/fcntl.h, /usr/include/unistd.h - but seemingly there's no
> description of lockf() in the man pages of info docs.
> 
> Unix98 aka SUSv2 says that either EACCES or EAGAIN can be returned.

Thanks for the footwork.

I think EAGAIN is a better alternative.