flock() or lockf()

[Ben Walton]

Hi William,

On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 6:45 PM, William Park <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> For file locking in C program on Linux, which should I use?
>    flock() or lockf()

I'd generally say lockf() (it's a POSIX interface) is a better choice
than flock().  This is especially true if you will need to handle the
NFS case, although this also depends on the NFS server being
sufficiently capable.

HTH.
-Ben
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