Is archiving synchronized ?

[Prasad Venkata Boddupalli]

On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

>> If 2 or more processes insert files into the same archive, are the
>> accesses serialized ? If not, the integrity of the archive file is
>> suspect. Isn't it so ?
>
> It's your responsibility to lock the archive, in that case.

Thank you. I was just wondering if 'ar' acquires write-lock on the 
archive file before pushing the file in. From your answer, it doesn't. 
Thanks once again.

Prasad.