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From: subbarao@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kartik Subbarao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: NFS file locking
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Date: 23 Apr 91 21:54:52 GMT
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In article <9104231257.aa28242@PARIS.ICS.UCI.EDU> jduarte@siam.ICS.UCI.EDU (J o s e D u a r t e) writes:
>	One of my friends told me that you all had discussed NFS
>file locking to guarantee exclusive access to a file. Can someone
>send me a summary of this discussion or at least provide some
>hints on how to do NFS file locking?

use lockf(3). This uses lockd to request the locking.

		-Kartik


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