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From: Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn@panix.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: C++ file locking
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 12:29:47 +0000 (UTC)
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Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> Ruben Safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com> writes:
>> Lukas 'Erdk' Redynk wrote:
> 
>>> You could try this:
>>> http://linux.die.net/man/3/lockf
>>> or
>>> http://www.manpagez.com/man/2/fcntl/ - especially F_GETLK and F_SETLK
>>
>> Yes but these both require you to get a file descriptor from the open 
>> call, effectively doing an end run around ios_base.
> 
> Yes.
> 
>> Is there no purely C++ mechanism of do this, or aquiring the file
>> descriptor from iosteams?
> 
> http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/ext_io.html
> 


I finally got this to work today, which wasn't easy with the
documentation that was provided.  One of the things that puzzled me was
what to use for the template argument.  I used char.

Ruben