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An overview why file locking is broken in Linux

15 points| henry_flower | 15 years ago |0pointer.de | reply

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[+] openfly|15 years ago|reply
This topic doesn't make any sense. Linux has many file systems. So which file system specifically has "broken" file locking?

So having read it. Seems this guy takes issue with the POSIX standard and it's flock requirements. Which of course makes this topic make even that much less sense.

[+] jrockway|15 years ago|reply
Not really broken. BSD-style locks work fine, although I suppose I have never had the occasion to only want to lock certain bytes in a file.