From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-10-07T04:36:24+09:00
Subject: Re: bug in open/flock ?

Ara.T.Howard wrote:
> in the code below, i am able to obtain TWO exclusive locks on files using the
> following logic:
> 
>   iff flock(LOCK_EX | LOCK_NB) fails, then open again and retry
> 
> this should not be possible should it??
> 
> note that the following code SHOULD deadlock - but does not.

[snip]

Aren't locks on a per-process basis? Ruby threads all run in the
same process.

Hal