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authorGuido 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
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\bimodindex{posixfile}
\indexii{posix}{file object}
+\emph{Note:} This module will become obsolete in a future release.
+The locking operation that it provides is done better and more
+portably by the \code{fcntl.lockf()} call.
+
This module implements some additional functionality over the built-in
file objects. In particular, it implements file locking, control over
the file flags, and an easy interface to duplicate the file object.