On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 04:50:57PM -0500, D. Richard Hipp wrote: > For additional information on the brokenness of POSIX > advisory locks and of POSIX threads, and in particular > how they are especially broken when used together, read > the comments in the source file os_unix.c.
Interesting. (I'm disapointed that W. Richard Stevens never mentioned those problems in his Unix Network Programming book on IPC.) Do any Unix distributions include some form of fcntl()-like "record" (byte ranges within the file) locking that actually works with threads? -- Andrew Piskorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.piskorski.com/
