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flock ??
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- Subject: flock ??
- From: Nigel Rantor <wiggly at bogo dot co dot uk>
- Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 15:03:06 +0000 (GMT)
Hmm, ok, simple question, is there flock? I have looked around the include
files and can't find it. I know that Win32 can do it because I have seen
the stuff about locking/lock/unlock and the whole issue of DOS machines
required to load share.exe to use those features. My question is whether
or not we have the UNIX calls or whether I would have to find out what the
correct Win32 ones are.
At the moment I am trying to come up with a couple of IO manipulators for
streams so that you can just pass manipulators such as,
lock/lock(attempts,timeout) and unlock() just as you would endl
setprecision setfill and their like. So I need a reliable way to lock
files and I would rather take advantage of system calls rather that
(eeeuuughh) use temp files. Just so you know what I needed flock for.
Or indeed lockf, I have read someone looking for this (BSD??) call, I use
Linux but if they are the same, functionally, then thats what I need. You
get the idea.
Any suggestions gratefully accepted,
Nige
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