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authorGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>1996-10-11 17:43:34 (GMT)
committerGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>1996-10-11 17:43:34 (GMT)
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Added embryonic description of fcntl.lockf(). Added pointer to that
in posixfile (which is obsolescent).
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@@ -42,6 +42,11 @@ See the Unix manual for details. (On some systems, this function is
emulated using \code{fcntl}.)
\end{funcdesc}
+\begin{funcdesc}{lockf}{fd\, code\, \optional{len\, \optional{start\, \optional{whence}}}}
+This is a wrapper around the \code{F_SETLK} and \code{F_SETLKW}
+\code{fcntl()} calls. See the Unix manual for details.
+\end{funcdesc}
+
If the library modules \code{FCNTL} or \code{IOCTL} are missing, you
can find the opcodes in the C include files \code{sys/fcntl} and
\code{sys/ioctl}. You can create the modules yourself with the h2py