From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2003-01-27T04:17:42+09:00
Subject: Re: solaris porting problem -- flock failure?

ts wrote:
> "a" == ahoward  <ahoward@fsl.noaa.gov> writes:
> 
> 
> a> odd that it builds flock when it is not missing on this system?
> 
>  flock() is broken on Solaris, this is why ruby emulate it with fcntl() (in
>  missing/flock.c) 

On this solaris host, man flock says flock itself is implemented in 
terms of fcntl locks:

      flock() applies or removes an  advisory  lock  on  the  file
      associated  with  the  file descriptor fd. The compatibility
      version of flock() has been implemented on top  of  fcntl(2)
      locking.  It does not provide complete binary compatibility.

But it appears ruby is doing its own emulation, just to be safe, I guess.