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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: lockfile type locks
Message-ID: <CEL4GPE@xds13.ferranti.com>
Date: 11 Jul 90 16:09:14 GMT
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Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In practice, storing a PID in the file and doing a kill() on it may give
false positives, but they're usually harmless. It will never give a false
negative (well, except over a network... in which case kernel locking is
likely a lost cause as well).

The problem with kernel locking is all the incompatible "standards".
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
+1 713 274 5180.
<peter@ficc.ferranti.com>