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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: <24075@abbott.mips.COM>
Date: 26 Jul 89 04:19:16 GMT
References: <136@uakari.primate.wisc.edu> <23988@abbott.mips.COM>
Reply-To: rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese)
Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <23988@abbott.mips.COM> rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese) writes:
>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.

...and a fix has already been checked in, which will appear in release 4.02
(if there is one) or 5.00.
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