Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!hybrid!scifi!bywater!uunet!convex!usenet From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: Locking files across NFS Message-ID: <1991Jan12.125838.15978@convex.com> Date: 12 Jan 91 12:58:38 GMT References: <1991Jan12.093201.21474@ircam.fr> Sender: usenet@convex.com (news access account) Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) Organization: CONVEX Software Development, Richardson, TX Lines: 12 Nntp-Posting-Host: pixel.convex.com From the keyboard of fingerhu@ircam.fr (Michel Fingerhut): :It would be neat to have a builtin lockf call (now that I got flock to work, :thanks, Larry). You should be able to use fcntl for lockf. See the man pages on those functions. --tom -- "Hey, did you hear Stallman has replaced /vmunix with /vmunix.el? Now he can finally have the whole O/S built-in to his editor like he always wanted!" --me (Tom Christiansen )