On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > It will occur if you are reading as someone else changes the file size.
> > Use file locking, it exists for a reason ;)
> Annoying extra overhead. Especially with NFS, when nowadays you can't
> even use flock() to create local locks..
It's not only "nowadays", it has been like that for quite a some time.
On the other hand you can use fcntl(F_SETLK) though, which works even
through NFS (v3).
--
Jiri Kosina
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