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Re: C++ file locking

From	Ruben Safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject	Re: C++ file locking
Date	2011-06-10 03:54 +0000
Organization	PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
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On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 01:37:38 -0700, Lukas 'Erdk' Redynk wrote:

> On Jun 7, 2:24 pm, Ruben Safir <ru...@mrbrklyn.com> wrote:
>> Is there any means to do file locking with C++?
>>
>> Ruben
> 
> 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
> 
> Erdk


Yes but these both require you to get a file descriptor from the open 
call, effectively doing an end run around ios_base.  Is there no purely C+
+ mechanism of do this, or aquiring the file descriptor from iosteams?

Ruben

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C++ file locking Ruben Safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com> - 2011-06-07 18:24 +0000
  Re: C++ file locking "Lukas 'Erdk' Redynk" <mr.erdk@gmail.com> - 2011-06-08 01:37 -0700
    Re: C++ file locking Ruben Safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com> - 2011-06-10 03:54 +0000
      Re: C++ file locking Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2011-06-10 09:31 +0100
        Re: C++ file locking Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn@panix.com> - 2011-06-27 12:29 +0000
      Re: C++ file locking Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2011-06-10 16:53 +0100
      Re: C++ file locking Lew Pitcher <lpitcher@teksavvy.com> - 2011-06-10 13:45 -0400
  Re: C++ file locking Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn@panix.com> - 2011-06-26 21:55 +0000

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