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in thread How to do atomic file locking?

Thanks! I was not aware of this.

So now my question is, if two files get to open the file (I'm working on Linux 2.6 kernel so I guess this can happen) but only one gets the lock.

Which call will fail? The flock one? can I do "flock or die"?

Again, thanks a lot. I couldn't find any references to this behavior.

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Re^3: How to do atomic file locking?
by Acapulco (Novice) on Aug 25, 2015 at 20:45 UTC

    Nevermind. It seems that indeed I can do flock or die.