This patch by Tony Reix adds an emulation of the Flock call to libgo's syscall package on AIX. Committed to mainline.
Ian
Index: gcc/go/gofrontend/MERGE =================================================================== --- gcc/go/gofrontend/MERGE (revision 255666) +++ gcc/go/gofrontend/MERGE (working copy) @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -c02de8ca63f52a2475ce8645edee3203a3c908ac +d1f90c9b77baca5c33a398ab844fb4440c6a5ee7 The first line of this file holds the git revision number of the last merge done from the gofrontend repository. Index: libgo/go/syscall/libcall_aix.go =================================================================== --- libgo/go/syscall/libcall_aix.go (revision 255666) +++ libgo/go/syscall/libcall_aix.go (working copy) @@ -111,6 +111,28 @@ func Reboot(how int) (err error) { //sys Fchownat(dirfd int, path string, uid int, gid int, flags int) (err error) //fchownat(dirfd _C_int, path *byte, owner Uid_t, group Gid_t, flags _C_int) _C_int +// On AIX, there is no flock() system call, we emulate it. +func Flock(fd int, op int) (err error) { + lk := &Flock_t{} + if (op & LOCK_UN) != 0 { + lk.Type = F_UNLCK + } else if (op & LOCK_EX) != 0 { + lk.Type = F_WRLCK + } else if (op & LOCK_SH) != 0 { + lk.Type = F_RDLCK + } else { + return nil + } + if (op & LOCK_NB) != 0 { + err = FcntlFlock(uintptr(fd), F_SETLK, lk) + if err != nil && (err == EAGAIN || err == EACCES) { + return EWOULDBLOCK + } + return err + } + return FcntlFlock(uintptr(fd), F_SETLKW, lk) +} + //sys Fstatfs(fd int, buf *Statfs_t) (err error) //fstatfs64(fd _C_int, buf *Statfs_t) _C_int