Il giorno ven, 15/07/2011 alle 17.48 +0100, Dan Mills ha scritto: > The thing is ANY processing is inherently going to be racy, at least > some of the time. > > The way to find out of part of a file is locked, is to try to take the > lock yourself (LOCK_NB as an argument to flock may be useful here), > if you get it then it was not held, and if your attempt fails then the > lock is held by something else. Ok, this is a way for try to resolve my problem, I check it. Thanks > ANYTHING else is going to give you inherently out of date information > that may change from under you. yes, i saw it > You really need to find another way to do whatever it is you are > really trying to do, why does a third party need to know which locks > are held? Because is a third part software and the producer do not give us that information, so I thought read /proc/locks for establish if a process is active via our lock on this file. Ok, thank Dan for suggest. Ciao -- Dario Lesca <d.lesca@xxxxxxxxxx> -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel