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| author | Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> | 2012-03-30 15:29:57 +0400 |
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| committer | Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> | 2012-03-30 15:29:57 +0400 |
| commit | 8a92f14092aa538546d319620c341ac058b833a6 (patch) | |
| tree | bb25ac0b1f2fa9130aa7ea8aad3b9953d31689f4 /winsup/cygwin/posix.sgml | |
| parent | a918afd7033d33525ed4eb4c42ba974a8d766d65 (diff) | |
* posix.sgml (std-notes): Change description of flock restrictions.
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| -rw-r--r-- | winsup/cygwin/posix.sgml | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/posix.sgml b/winsup/cygwin/posix.sgml index 5bb27d7c7..5e5df463b 100644 --- a/winsup/cygwin/posix.sgml +++ b/winsup/cygwin/posix.sgml @@ -1457,10 +1457,11 @@ CLOCK_REALTIME and CLOCK_MONOTONIC. <function>clock_setres</function>, <function>clock_settime</function>, and <function>timer_create</function> currently support only CLOCK_REALTIME.</para> -<para>BSD file locks created via <function>flock</function> are not -propagated to the parent process and sibling processes. The locks are -only valid in the creating process and subsequently started child processes -sharing the same file descriptor.</para> +<para>BSD file locks created via <function>flock</function> are only +propagated to the direct parent process, not to grand parents or sibling +processes. The locks are only valid in the creating process, its parent, +and subsequently started child processes sharing the same file descriptor. +</para> <para><function>fpclassify</function>, <function>isfinite</function>, <function>isgreater</function>, <function>isgreaterequal</function>, |