Re: PR/48351 CVS commit: src/usr.bin/flock

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Oct 29,  3:32pm, dennis.c.ferguson%gmail.com@localhost (Dennis Ferguson) 
wrote:
-- Subject: Re: PR/48351 CVS commit: src/usr.bin/flock

| Ah, maybe it's my fault for not providing a better example.  This
| seems to work:
| 
| $ (                                                                          
| > ./flock -s 0; echo $?
| > ./flock -x 0; echo $?
| > ./flock -s 0; echo $?
| > ./flock -u 0; echo $?
| > ) < /tmp/a_file
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 
| I think the thing being locked might need to be a regular file.

On linux locking 0 on the shell works...

christos