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On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 04:33:08PM -0400, Mason Loring Bliss wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 12:17:18PM +0100, Ben Harris wrote:
>=20
>  Come to that, how about something like:
> >=20
> > main(int argc, char **argv)
> > {
> >=20
> > 	flock(STDOUT_FILENO, LOCK_EX);
> > 	if (!fork())
> > 		execvp("cat", argv);
> > 	wait();
> > 	flock(STDOUT_FILENO, LOCK_UN);
> > 	return 0;
> > }
>=20
> If locking stdout does what you're suggesting, I guess that would be
> completely sufficient.

I find after a bit of testing that it does precisely the right thing.

Since this works, locking stdout would seem to be a useful option for
cat(1), perhaps.

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