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Re: Thread-safe libio
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- Subject: Re: Thread-safe libio
- From: "Alain Magloire" <alain@qnx.com>
- Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 17:51:43 -0400 (EDT)
Bonjour
> Whenever locking is done it has to use the lockfile() functions since
> they know how to interact with the thread library.
If I remember correctly, f{try,un,}lockfile() were introduce *with/for*
threading by posix. I did not see any OS that provides flockfile()
whitout support for PThreads.
flockfile provides opaque reference counting.
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alain