Re: file locking question

From: Barry Margolin (barry.margolin_at_level3.com)
Date: 05/30/03 

Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 23:12:55 GMT

In article <2937926.1054247535@dbforums.com>,
v_sridhar <member17620@dbforums.com> wrote:
>
>ok I think I got that wrong. fcntl() needs to be prepared for mandatory
>locking the SySV way( messing with the GID and XGRP bits).But still in
>the above code the parent is not able to write once the child locks the
>file.Would appreciate if anyone could clarify the behaviour.

The parent and child are both writing the file at the same location, so one
will overwrite what the other has written. The locking is irrelevant,
because the parent never checks the lock. 

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