Some architectures do provide l_sysid delcaration in struct flock; however, it is not used anyway. * man2/fcntl.2 (.SH NOTES): Note that l_sysid field is not used on Linux even if present on some architectures. Signed-off-by: Eugene Syromyatnikov <evgsyr@xxxxxxxxx> --- man2/fcntl.2 | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/man2/fcntl.2 b/man2/fcntl.2 index 03533d6..accadee 100644 --- a/man2/fcntl.2 +++ b/man2/fcntl.2 @@ -1921,7 +1921,9 @@ such as, for example, Clearly, .I l_pid alone is not going to be very useful if the process holding the lock -may live on a different machine. +may live on a different machine; +on Linux, while present on some architectures (such as MIPS32), +this field is not used. .PP The original Linux .BR fcntl () -- 2.1.4
