-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 7/21/2009 5:26 PM: > I'm still trying to figure out why the close-on-exec cleanup appears to be > spuriously triggering the flock Event to unlock. But my understanding is > that > F_FLOCK locks should survive over exec, so the close-on-exec cleanup should > only trigger lock release on F_POSIX locks.
Correction - both flock and fcntl locks should survive exec, but only flock can survive fork. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkpmeGkACgkQ84KuGfSFAYBQPACguJJ6RWbU9hFcXmUuEJGk5usP hbMAn0qMGxzgWNWAqdIEVYDB4GEQUpco =MWP7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
