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- From: ochealth@unixg.ubc.ca (ochealth)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
- Subject: Re: flock() for emx gcc?
- Date: 11 Nov 1992 00:50:14 GMT
- Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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- In article <1992Nov10.005811.18119@grebyn.com> richk@grebyn.com (Richard Krehbiel) writes:
- :I was trying to get GNU GDBM working; it wants an flock() function,
- :and I don't know where to get one. I know OS/2 has file locking
- :functions. I don't have the library sources, and I don't have native
- :OS/2 programming docs, so I can't really do anything about it myself.
- :
- :Is there an flock() function around already? Could someone literate
- :in emx (0.8e) gcc (2.2.2) whip one up? Thanks.
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- why don;t you look at the OS/2 port of GNU dbm? IT's on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.
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- I've checked the sources a bit, and it looks like flock() isn't used for
- OS/2. ( I think OS/2 and EMX default to lcking out writes anyway)
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-
- :--
- :Richard Krehbiel richk@grebyn.com
- :OS/2 2.0 will do for me until AmigaDOS for the 386 comes along...
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