Re: [leafnode-list] lockfiles revisited

[Matthias Andree <ma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joerg Dietrich schrieb am Mittwoch, den 14. Februar 2001:

> Which unlink? Process open()s groupinfo, acquieres exclusive
> fcntl() lock, does whatever there is to do, releases fcntl()
> lock. Can be as fine grained as you want, i.e. open(),
> fcntl(), rereadactive(), dostuff(),writeactive(), close(), 
> anytime, anywhere in the calling program.

The "unlocking" unlinks (that remove the lock file). Still, open/fcntl
is dangerous for O_TRUNC or something.

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