Should two exclusive flock(2)'s by same process succeed?

[Roger B.A. Klorese]

In article <136 at uakari.primate.wisc.edu> bin at primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral) writes:
>Should a single process be able to acquire an exclusive lock on a file
>twice?  It would seem to me "no", given the usual meaning of "exclusive".

I tend to agree.  It's bug #4810.
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