From: ahoward <ahoward@...>
Date: 2003-01-27T01:33:48+09:00
Subject: Re: solaris porting problem -- flock failure?

On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, Joel VanderWerf wrote:

<snip>
> I'm having trouble porting some multi-thread, multi-process code from
> linux to solaris.
<snip>

does your solaris os have this disclaimer?

man flock :
....
NOTES
  Use of these interfaces should be restricted to only  appli- cations written
  on BSD platforms.  Use of these interfaces with any of the system libraries
  or in multi-thread applica- tions is unsupported.
....


-a




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