The consequences of using close(2) together with advisory record locks are quite serious. Make the warning more explicit. Signed-off-by: Tomáš Golembiovský <tgolembi@xxxxxxxxxx> --- man2/close.2 | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/man2/close.2 b/man2/close.2 index 68211bc58..f8a4ccc2d 100644 --- a/man2/close.2 +++ b/man2/close.2 @@ -32,8 +32,14 @@ may be reused. Any record locks (see .BR fcntl (2)) held on the file it was associated with, -and owned by the process, are removed (regardless of the file -descriptor that was used to obtain the lock). +and owned by the process, +are removed regardless of the file descriptor that was used to obtain the lock. +This has some unfortunate consequences +and one should be extra careful when using advisory record locking. +See +.BR fcntl (2) +for discussion of the risks and consequences +as well as for the (probably preferred) open file description locks. .PP If .I fd -- 2.41.0
