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

[Roger B.A. Klorese]

In article <23988 at abbott.mips.COM> rogerk at mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese) writes:
>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.

...and a fix has already been checked in, which will appear in release 4.02
(if there is one) or 5.00.
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