Re: [LI] lock function in unix

[NILESH PADMAKAR JOSHI]

on march 1 2000 abhay wrote

  ya u can lock files on linux so that now two processes
  can access the file at a time use fcntl function for
  more info use man fcntl u can even achieve record locking
  with this function.

                                 welcome..
                                    Nilesh

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On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, G A Abhay wrote:

> Is there any lock function (in C) to lock files on a linux machine
> Does the kernel provide such system calls at all?
> This should prevent other processes from accessing the same file.
> 
> abhay
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