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From: Nick Garnett <nickg@cygnus.co.uk>
To: Johan Rydberg <johan.rydberg@netinsight.se>
Cc: elix@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: File system at level 1
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 06:45:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <pod7nbd5dp.fsf@balti.cygnus.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <39083E25.F795634D@netinsight.se>

Johan Rydberg <johan.rydberg@netinsight.se> writes:

> Hi!
> 
> I have looked through the EL/IX Base API Specification (DRAFT, 
> Version 1.1) and have some questions.
> 
> In section 4.6 you can read that functions like `flockfile'
> must be present at level 1 (w/o option).  Shouldn't these 
> function have file system option (i.e., only be present if
> support for file system is)?  Other file system function has
> atleast `f' as an option.
> 

These functions provide explicit application level locking of FILE
objects in multithread systems. They have nothing to do with file
locking accessible through fcntl().

Not all FILE objects are necessarily files in the filesystem,
they can be serial devices, TCP sockets or anything else. These
functions are actually quite independent of the underlying
implementation of the stream.


-- 
Nick Garnett
Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat Company
Cambridge, UK

      reply	other threads:[~2000-04-27  6:45 UTC|newest]

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2000-04-27  6:14 Johan Rydberg
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