Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2001 18:20:24 +0300
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Update of DJGPP port of GNU gdbm 1.8.0 uploaded
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> From: "Wojciech Galazka" <wojciech DOT galazka AT polkomtel DOT com DOT pl>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:38:16 +0200
> 
> >        This update accounts for the fact that DJGPP's implementation
> >        of fcntl() does not support F_GETLK, F_SETLK nor F_SETLKW.
> 
> Just curious, why doesn't fcntl () support these flags ?

The usual reason: because no one coded that for DJGPP v2.03.
Supporting record locking in a Posix compliant way is not easy on DOS.
Since then, support for these flags was added, and so the next version
will have them.