Re: fcntl file locking and pthreads

Jamie Lokier (jamie@shareable.org)
Sun, 4 May 2003 13:58:45 +0100


Mikhail Kruk wrote:
> on 2.4 kernels fcntl-based file locking does not work with
> clone-based threads as expected (by me): two threads of the same process
> can acquire exclusive lock on a file at the same time.
> flock()-based locks work as expected, i.e. only one thread can have an
> exclusive lock at a time.

Is this true even when _not_ setting CLONE_FILES?

cheers,
-- Jamie
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