korry wrote:
> The only platform (although certainly not a minor issue) that I can
> think of that would have a portability issue would be Win32. You can't
> even read a locked byte in Win32. I usually solve that problem by
> locking a byte past the end of the file (which is portable).
Certainly on all platforms there must be *some* locking primitive. We
just need to figure out the appropiate parameters to fcntl() or flock()
or lockf() on each.
The Win32 API for locking seems mighty strange to me.
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