Re: gEDA: Proposal: lockfile mechanism for gEDA/gaf

[Ales Hvezda <ahvezda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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>flock will NOT work across NFS. But lockf or fcntl WILL work across NFS, SMBFS
>.
>Sorry, I'm not familiar with AFS. I don't know if flock works with SMBFS.
>lockf and fcntl are POSIX compliant.
>
>To sum up: DO NOT use flock. Use lockf or fcntl.

	Also, I have one more request, please make sure that whatever
locking you come up with works on Windows using mingw as well.  I can test the
scheme if necessary.

								-Ales