Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:16:18 +0100 | From | "Dr. Werner Fink" <> | Subject | Re: File Locking Bug |
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On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 11:13:49AM +0000, David Howells wrote: > I've found that two different processes can both simultaneously hold write > locks on a file, as long as one uses fcntl() and the other uses flock()! > Should this be the case? Surely, write locks of any sort should be mutually > exclusive. > > This is using linux 2.2.3
Which libc the programs use? I'd expect that flock() is emulated by fcntl().
Werner
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