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• From: "Yakov Lerner" <[email protected]>
• Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:10:44 +0200
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Manual page 'man 2 fork' says:
                  'File locks ... are not inherited.'
This is true for POSIX locks (fcntl-style locks).

But flock-style locks (aka bsd-style locks) are not inherited across
fork, correct ?

Would not it be more helpful if fork manpage said:

         POSIX file locks(fcntl(2)) are not inherited.
         flock-style locks are inherited (see flock(2))

?

Yakov
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