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From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>)
Newsgroups: net.sources.games
Subject: Re: problems with galaxy/robots/others on Sys V Rel 2
Message-ID: <11289@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 17-Jun-85 20:33:53 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 17 20:33:53 1985
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> 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.

Check out lockf() and the more general locking features of fcntl().
These were added in Rel. 2 Ver. 2.