From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2003-01-27T04:33:55+09:00
Subject: Re: solaris porting problem -- flock failure?

ahoward wrote:
> 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.
> ....

It sure does. I should have been more intimidated by that, but I was 
thinking that the fact that all ruby threads are in one native threads 
would save me.