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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users File locking Post 302299149 by lakshmananindia on Thursday 19th of March 2009 10:09:21 AM
Old 03-19-2009
refer the flock manual.
flock is a system call to lock files.
 

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VOP_ADVLOCK(9)						   BSD Kernel Developer's Manual					    VOP_ADVLOCK(9)

NAME
VOP_ADVLOCK -- advisory record locking SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/param.h> #include <sys/vnode.h> #include <sys/fcntl.h> #include <sys/lockf.h> int VOP_ADVLOCK(struct vnode *vp, caddr_t id, int op, struct flock *fl, int flags); DESCRIPTION
The arguments are: vp The vnode being manipulated. id The id token which is changing the lock. op The operation to perform (see fcntl(2)). fl Description of the lock. flags One of more of the following: F_RDLCK Shared or read lock. F_UNLCK Unlock. F_WRLCK Exclusive or write lock. F_WAIT Wait until lock is granted. F_FLOCK Use flock(2) semantics for lock. F_POSIX Use POSIX semantics for lock. This entry point manipulates advisory record locks on the file. Most file systems delegate the work for this call to lf_advlock(). RETURN VALUES
Zero is returned on success, otherwise an error is returned. SEE ALSO
fcntl(2), flock(2), vnode(9) AUTHORS
This manual page was written by Doug Rabson. BSD
June 30, 1999 BSD
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