Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 4 May 2003 17:50:49 -0400 (EDT) | From | Mikhail Kruk <> | Subject | RE: fcntl file locking and pthreads |
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> > Two reference platforms for > > threads are Solaris and Windows. I don't know how Solaris handles this, > > but on Windows file locks are per thread, not per process. > > Surely your argument isn't that UNIX should do things a certain way because > that's how Windows does it? We can talk about two things, how things are and > how they should be. This discussion seemed to be about how things should be.
I mentioned Windows because it happens to have a very mature threading implementation and I don't see why Unix can't look at something from Windows as a reference. Anyway, I understand your argument about thread vs processes resources. I also checked that it works the same way on Solaris (which of course is a better reference point for Linux), so I agree that fcntl behavior is ok. Thanks for your explanation!
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