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From: jalvarez@uno.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Record locking under FreeBSD
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 96 20:02:58 PDT
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Does FreeBSD support the locking() or lockf() calls used on
other UNIX systems to lock a range of bytes on a file ? Is so,
which library has the locking functions ?

Thanks,
--Jesus Alvarez
  Software UNO