> I know its not really an argument, but SVR4, Solaris, HP-UX, SunOS4 etc.
> all have mandatory locking.
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> -Andy
...but after reading the manuals (HP-UX) we decided not to use it at
all. It's too easy to get bad deadlocks. We prefer to explicitly
flock() a file.
BTW: HP-UX 10.01 says that "Only advisory record locking is
implemented for NFS files." (That is even the s-bit won't cause
implicit flock()s; you must do it explicitly). Maybe we can make both
parties happy.
Ulrich Windl
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> Andy Walker Kvaerner Engineering a.s.
> Andrew.Walker@lysaker.kvaerner.no P.O. Box 222, N-1324 Lysaker, Norway
>
> ......if the answer isn't violence, neither is your silence......
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