Beco <r...@beco.cc> writes:

> After implementing the score (using SGID), I have a race condition in my
> game.

> The comparisson is between the just scored point with the last point
> in the top-10.

> readscore_file2memory();
> If(pt>top[9])
> {
>   printf("Congrats... and stuff\n");
>   reorderscore_memory();
>   savescore_memory2file();
> }

> What would be the standard way to lock the scorefile?

fcntl(fd, F_SETLK).  See fcntl(2).

-- 
Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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