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Re: bug maintenance, last comment.



On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 10:58:54AM +1100, Brendan O'Dea wrote:
> All of which is fairly irrelevant.  Exactly which kind of locking is
> used shouldn't really make any difference so long as all processes
> updating the file use the same mechanism.

The important distinction is that fcntl locks across all NFS clients
to this file, while flock only locks the local system.

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