On Apr  5 05:08, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!
> 
> > I guess you read that
> > there's a way to use Windows mandatory locks, too.
> 
> Yes, if I compile my own program. But I'm not. I'm writing a shell script.
> And /usr/bin/flock fails to lock a file. Even though the man claims that it
> "uses an exclusive lock by default".

exclusive != mandatory

See, e.g, http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/fcntl.2.html


Corinna

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