Hi! On 19:14 Tue 29 Mar , Kevin O'Gorman wrote: ... > Naturally, wanting to get the details right, I did some browsing of > documentation. It seems the Stevens & > Rago text that I'm using has a pretty good section on file locking in the > Advanced I/O chapter, and it agreed > with what I had expected well enough. But I found a reference to this file > mentioned above, and was > shocked to find it began with a warning to avoid this feature. It seemed it > was like the BUGS section of > the linux man page for the gets() function: do not use gets. I gave up on > this topic, but told my students > about it. You might find these pages interesting: http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/locking.html http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/locking2.html -Michi -- programing a layer 3+4 network protocol for mesh networks see http://michaelblizek.twilightparadox.com _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
