Messages in this thread | | | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: Pre2.0-8 & Sendmail | Date | Fri, 31 May 1996 09:41:48 +0100 (BST) |
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> You might want to reconsider your recommendation for flock() as the > standard. I agree that mixed locks are a bad thing, but standardizing on > flock means anyone wanting to try doing locking over NFS will have to > maintain custom versions of the system libraries. Debian has already > changed their gdbm to use fcntl() locking.
fcntl() locking is not done over NFS under Linux either. We don't yet have NFS lock support although I think Olaf and co had some stuff near enough ready to use ?
Alan
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