Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: File Locking Bug | From | Trond Myklebust <> | Date | 24 Mar 1999 14:29:00 +0100 |
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David Howells <David.Howells@nexor.co.uk> writes:
> 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 >
Read /usr/src/linux/Documentation/locks.txt to find out why this is not the case.
Trond
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