Re: Cygwin patches for 2002e

2003-10-21 Thread Mark Crispin
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Abe Backus wrote: 1) the flock simulator for cygwin in flockcyg.c has the same limitations as the flock simulator for NT, so the code should only lock on one byte in the file. The person that brought this to my attention would prefer that the code lock the last possible

Re: Cygwin patches for 2002e

2003-10-21 Thread Eduardo Chappa
*** Mark Crispin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote today: :) On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Abe Backus wrote: :) 1) the flock simulator for cygwin in flockcyg.c has the same :) limitations as the flock simulator for NT, so the code should only :) lock on one byte in the file. The person that brought this

Re: Cygwin patches for 2002e

2003-10-21 Thread Mark Crispin
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Eduardo Chappa wrote: One question, though. If your hunch is correct, I see that LockFileEx is only implemented on Windows NT, 2000 and XP, so how does this patch work in Windows 98? There is no such thing as meaningful file locking in Windows 98. Win98 is not a real