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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Anyone using fcntl() to emulate lockf()?
Date: 5 Feb 1996 10:49:48 GMT
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betts@onramp.net (Jeff Betts) writes:

> Before I write my own lockf() that calls fcntl(), I thought I better
> ask if anyone else has already done this (or has a better idea)
> before I reinvent the wheel.

Once you did it, please submit it for inclusion into libcompat.

-- 
cheers, J"org

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