From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Subject: Re: Linux' NFS locking b0rken?
Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 15:12:06 -0400
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P=E5 ty , 25/05/2004 klokka 15:08, skreiv Ara.T.Howard:
> yes, in that it would work, you simply would not coordinate with other
> processes which do NOT use fcntl based locks.  ruby and perl ship with
> implemtations of flock which are, in fact, fctnl under the hood.

No it would not. Read the manpages...

Trond


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