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From: rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson)
Newsgroups: net.sources.games
Subject: problems with galaxy/robots/others on Sys V Rel 2
Message-ID: <739@burl.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 11-Jun-85 14:29:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: burl.739
Posted: Tue Jun 11 14:29:00 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 12-Jun-85 02:15:05 EDT
Reply-To: rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson)
Organization: AT&T Technologies, Burlington NC
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Keywords: flock

The problems mentioned compiling galaxy, robots, and others are
due to the use of the flock() utility of BSD, which Sys V does
not have.  flock() is a general-purpose advisory lock routine
for files (i.e., we want to make sure that two players aren't
writing the score file at the exact same time).

I am too swamped at the moment to write a public-domain version
of flock(), and from the hell I caught last time I posted something
MUCH more trivial than flock()  [dup2()] that I had written myself,
I don't think I'd be able to do so anyway.

If anyone has/is_willing_to_write a public-domain flock(), I for
one would be quite interested in it; otherwise I'll have to write
one at a later date and my colleages will not be able to play
these goodies until then.

Thanks to anyone with pointers to public domain flock(),
-- 

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