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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/release | |
| parent | a918afd7033d33525ed4eb4c42ba974a8d766d65 (diff) | |
* posix.sgml (std-notes): Change description of flock restrictions.
Diffstat (limited to 'winsup/cygwin/release')
| -rw-r--r-- | winsup/cygwin/release/1.7.12 | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/release/1.7.12 b/winsup/cygwin/release/1.7.12 index f81cbf1bb..4072ad31e 100644 --- a/winsup/cygwin/release/1.7.12 +++ b/winsup/cygwin/release/1.7.12 @@ -5,3 +5,17 @@ What's new: existing POSIX devices. - Add virtual /proc/PID/mountinfo file. + +- flock now additionaly supports the following scenario, which requires + to propagate locks to the parent process: + + ( + flock -n 9 || exit 1 + # ... commands executed under lock ... + } 9>/var/lock/mylockfile + + Only propagation to the direct parent process is supported so far, + not to grand parents or sibling processes. + +- Add a "detect_bloda" setting for the CYGWIN environment variable to help + finding potential BLODAs. |