Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 09:58:26 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Galik <garehbuxton AT bournemouth-net DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: Record Locking (Portable?)
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On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Galik wrote:

> Can anyone tell me how a good place to find info on
> record locking under DOS and UNIX.Are there portable
> library routines in DJGPP to achieve this between the two OSs?

Unix systems have `flock' and `lockf'; DOS/Windows have either `lock'
and `unlock' or `_dos_lock' and `_dos_unlock'.  DJGPP doesn't provide
`lockf' and `flock' currently, but you could easily implement them
using `lock' and `unlock'.