On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 12:16:41PM +1300, Greg Ewing wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > This interface follows the completely stupid semantics of System V and > > IEEE Std 1003.1-1988 (``POSIX.1'') that require that all locks > > associated with a file for a given process are removed when any file > > descriptor for that file is closed by that process.... Flock(2) is > > recommended for applications that want to ensure the integrity of their > > locks when using library routines or wish to pass locks to their > > children. > > > > I guess the BSD folks were a bit upset when they wrote that. > > That sounds more like something written by the GNU folks than > the BSD folks.
It's from BSD. The earliest I can find it is 4.4BSD. It's still in the latest versions of OpenBSD, NetBSD and FreeBSD. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
