On Oct 8 23:37, Damjan Lango wrote: > Hello! > > I have a program that uses: > > lock.l_type = F_WRLCK; > fcntl(log->handle, F_SETLK, &lock) > > the file is then locked also for reads, is that correct behaviour? > I thought that only writing would be locked. > on unix the file stays readable even if using the above code.
The behaviour is correct as far as mandatory locking is concerned. Under POSIX file locking is supposed to be advisory locking which doesn't actually enforce the lock. The problem for us is the fact that Windows does only implement mandatory locking and that's what is used in Cygwin for now. Implementing advisory file locking is on my ToDo list for quite some time now but..., well... http://cygwin.com/contrib.html Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
