Re: Problem getting flock with timeout to work

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Mar 12 15:40, Robert Klemme wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I searched the archives but could not find any related issue.  My
> problem is this: I use flock with a timeout but apparently the timeout
> does not work, i.e. flock waits longer than specified.  Script is
> attached.  Output is here:

The flock implementation in Cygwin 1.5.25 is not very sophisticated
and uses direct calls to the Windows mandatory file locking calls.

The next major release Cygwin 1.7 has a completely new implementation
of file locking (fcntl, flock, lockf) providing advisory file locking.
If you could give it a try, I'd be glad to have a tester for this
code.  Please start here:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2009-03/msg00043.html


Corinna

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