Michele Simionato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, I have yet another question: what is the difference > between fcntl.lockf and fcntl.flock? The man page of > my Linux system says that flock is implemented independently > of fcntl, however it does not say if I should use it in preference > over fcntl or not.
flock() and lockf() are two different library calls. With lockf() you can lock parts of a file. I've always used flock(). >From man lockf() "On Linux, this call [lockf] is just an interface for fcntl(2). (In general, the relation between lockf and fcntl is unspecified.)" see man lockf and man flock -- Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
