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Re: flock still buggy
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According to Eric Blake on 7/21/2009 5:26 PM:
> I'm still trying to figure out why the close-on-exec cleanup appears to be
> spuriously triggering the flock Event to unlock. But my understanding is that
> F_FLOCK locks should survive over exec, so the close-on-exec cleanup should
> only trigger lock release on F_POSIX locks.
Correction - both flock and fcntl locks should survive exec, but only
flock can survive fork.
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Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
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