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From: rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: Should two exclusive flock(2)'s by same process succeed?
Message-ID: <23988@abbott.mips.COM>
Date: 25 Jul 89 01:42:48 GMT
References: <136@uakari.primate.wisc.edu>
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In article <136@uakari.primate.wisc.edu> bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral) writes:
>Should a single process be able to acquire an exclusive lock on a file
>twice?  It would seem to me "no", given the usual meaning of "exclusive".

I tend to agree.  It's bug #4810.
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ROGER B.A. KLORESE      MIPS Computer Systems, Inc.      phone: +1 408 720-2939
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