flock vs fnctl

[Rob Siemborski]

On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Lawrence Greenfield wrote:

>    Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:11:39 -0400 (EDT)
>    From: Rob Siemborski <rjs3 at andrew.cmu.edu>
> [...]
>    No, fcntl is not the default.  I'll have to look at the documentation.
>
>    --with-lock=flock should fix this for you though if it makes a difference.
>
> Except that it has been since 2.1.7:
>
> > Change default locking method to fcntl from flock

Despite what I said in the message, I apparently changed the documentation
to be correct.

Hmm, I wonder what I was thinking when I wrote the message.

-Rob

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