korry wrote: > The only platform (although certainly not a minor issue) that I can > think of that would have a portability issue would be Win32. You can't > even read a locked byte in Win32. I usually solve that problem by > locking a byte past the end of the file (which is portable).
Certainly on all platforms there must be *some* locking primitive. We just need to figure out the appropiate parameters to fcntl() or flock() or lockf() on each. The Win32 API for locking seems mighty strange to me. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
