Is HDB locking safe?

[Robert Thurlow]

djs at nimbus3.uucp (Doug) writes:

>I don't understand why this technique was even used.  The System V kernal 
>provides atomic file locking that is released when the process dies or 
>closes the file.  Why wasn't that used?  Was it for portability?
>What am I missing?

Either the fact that there was Unix before there was System V, or the
fact that there is still Unix that isn't System V.

Rob T
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