From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 16 03:26:44 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id DAA01609 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 16 Jan 1995 03:26:44 -0800 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id DAA01586 for ; Mon, 16 Jan 1995 03:26:39 -0800 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; id AA22262; Sun, 15 Jan 1995 17:01:06 -0500 Date: Sun, 15 Jan 1995 17:01:06 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9501152201.AA22262@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: hart@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au (Bill Hart) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: byte range locking (lockf) in FreeBSD 2.0 In-Reply-To: References: Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < Anybody have any ideas of a way to add lockf to the > system or simulate its operation through another call ? Use the POSIX fcntl(2) interface. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant