From: ara howard <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2008-02-19T11:51:26+09:00
Subject: Re: File#flock with LOCK_SH causes Errno::EBADF on Solaris


On Feb 18, 2008, at 2:09 PM, Douglas Wells wrote:

> In any case, right now Ruby seems to just use the OS's flock
> function, and I don't think that it would be reasonable for the
> Ruby implementation to attempt to get around this as it would be
> far too messy -- and slow.  I'd just live with the problem.

http://codeforpeople.com/lib/ruby/posixlock/posixlock-0.0.1/README

you really can't use flock on *nix systems anyhow, unless you are very  
careful - flock is sometime implemented in terms of posixlock,  
sometimes not.  when it is not the locks are incompatible and break on  
many filesystems.

fyi

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