From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 8 22:32:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA09080 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 22:32:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from thor.afnetinc.com (thor.afnetinc.com [206.40.232.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA09074 for ; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 22:32:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from efinley@efinley.com) Received: from pm3-0-ip28.afnetinc.com ([206.40.232.235]) by thor.afnetinc.com with smtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 0zndAX-0006kP-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 23:32:17 -0700 From: efinley@efinley.com (Elliot Finley) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: flock and fcntl Date: Wed, 09 Dec 1998 06:34:02 GMT Organization: Hiawatha Coal Company Reply-To: efinley@efinley.com Message-ID: <36700c57.37316822@mail.afnetinc.com> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.5/32.451 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id WAA09075 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If program A has an exclusive lock on file X using fcntl, will program B which is using flock instead of fcntl, honor the lock of program A, and vice versa? -- Later Science (efinley@efinley.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message