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From: rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: locking dbm files
Keywords: dbmopen, dbmclose, flock
Message-ID: <125602@uunet.UU.NET>
Date: 15 Mar 91 05:44:42 GMT
References: <1991Mar14.205242.23220@convex.com> <125585@uunet.UU.NET> <1991Mar14.235335.1712@convex.com>
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In article <1991Mar14.235335.1712@convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
?From the keyboard of rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim):
?:File locking is easy, unless, of course you are using NFS.
?
?Use lockf (fcntl) instead of flock then.  And risk hanging forever
?should the lockdaemon go south.  Actually,  I haven't had too much
?trouble with it in the last few months on this particular machine,
?but on other convexen here there have been occasional anomalies.

WHAT lock daemon? It seems that vendors which are stupid enuf
to implement dual universes can't be bothered to update their NFS.

BTW, what does NFS do with O_CREAT|O_EXCL?
Don't tell me, I think I know...
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