unix without locking? cannot imagine ;-)
Here you go.
flock() - POSIX locking
fcntl(filedes, command, ...)
- where command could be F_SETLK, etc (man fcntl)
flockfile() - threaded applns
HTH
Sai
>
> 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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