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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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