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FLOCK(2) Linux Programmer's Manual FLOCK(2)
NAME
flock - apply or remove an advisory lock on an open file
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/file.h>
int flock(int fd, int operation);
DESCRIPTION
Apply or remove an advisory lock on the open file specified by fd. The
parameter operation is one of the following:
LOCK_SH Place a shared lock. More than one process may hold a
shared lock for a given file at a given time.
LOCK_EX Place an exclusive lock. Only one process may hold an
exclusive lock for a given file at a given time.
LOCK_UN Remove an existing lock held by this process.
A call to flock() may block if an incompatible lock is held by another
process. To make a non-blocking request, include LOCK_NB (by ORing)
with any of the above operations.
A single file may not simultaneously have both shared and exclusive
locks.
Locks created by flock() are associated with an open file table entry.
This means that duplicate file descriptors (created by, for example,
fork(2) or dup(2)) refer to the same lock, and this lock may be modi-
fied or released using any of these descriptors. Furthermore, the lock
is released either by an explicit LOCK_UN operation on any of these
duplicate descriptors, or when all such descriptors have been closed.
If a process uses open(2) (or similar) to obtain more than one descrip-
tor for the same file, these descriptors are treated independently by
flock(). An attempt to lock the file using one of these file descrip-
tors may be denied by a lock that the calling process has already
placed via another descriptor.
A process may only hold one type of lock (shared or exclusive) on a
file. Subsequent flock() calls on an already locked file will convert
an existing lock to the new lock mode.
Locks created by flock() are preserved across an execve(2).
A shared or exclusive lock can be placed on a file regardless of the
mode in which the file was opened.
RETURN VALUE
On success, zero is returned. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is
set appropriately.
ERRORS
EBADF fd is not a not an open file descriptor.
EINTR While waiting to acquire a lock, the call was interrupted by
delivery of a signal caught by a handler.
EINVAL operation is invalid.
ENOLCK The kernel ran out of memory for allocating lock records.
EWOULDBLOCK
The file is locked and the LOCK_NB flag was selected.
CONFORMING TO
4.4BSD (the flock(2) call first appeared in 4.2BSD). A version of
flock(2), possibly implemented in terms of fcntl(2), appears on most
Unices.
NOTES
flock(2) does not lock files over NFS. Use fcntl(2) instead: that does
work over NFS, given a sufficiently recent version of Linux and a
server which supports locking.
Since kernel 2.0, flock(2) is implemented as a system call in its own
right rather than being emulated in the GNU C library as a call to
fcntl(2). This yields true BSD semantics: there is no interaction
between the types of lock placed by flock(2) and fcntl(2), and flock(2)
does not detect deadlock.
flock(2) places advisory locks only; given suitable permissions on a
file, a process is free to ignore the use of flock(2) and perform I/O
on the file.
flock(2) and fcntl(2) locks have different semantics with respect to
forked processes and dup(2). On systems that implement flock() using
fcntl(), the semantics of flock() will be different from those
described in this manual page.
Converting a lock (shared to exclusive, or vice versa) is not guaran-
teed to be atomic: the existing lock is first removed, and then a new
lock is established. Between these two steps, a pending lock request
by another process may be granted, with the result that the conversion
either blocks, or fails if LOCK_NB was specified. (This is the origi-
nal BSD behaviour, and occurs on many other implementations.)
SEE ALSO"
close(2), dup(2), execve(2), fcntl(2), fork(2), open(2), lockf(3)
There are also locks.txt and mandatory.txt in /usr/src/linux/Documenta
tion.
Linux 2002-04-24 FLOCK(2)
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This page was generated on Tue Feb 13 02:17:35 GMT 2007
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