Re: flock() and sendmail

[Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org>]

On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 01:02:15PM +0000, John Kelly wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 11:14:21 +0000, Roger Leigh
> <rleigh@whinlatter.ukfsn.org> wrote:
> 
> >It's almost always a bad idea to use flock() instead of fcntl().
> >fnctl() locking is effectively deprecating flock()
> 
> I heard it was the other way around.  Please explain ...

This list is not for discussing different Un*x locking implementations,
please find advise on which you prefer elsewhere.


thanks,

Michael