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On Aug 16 06:01, Warren Young wrote:Advisory locking only works when all players cooperate. We can't assume that on Windows, unless we set up an insular Cygwin ghetto.
So, are you saying that Cygwin should use mandatory file locking?
You are aware that there's no chance at all to implement the UNIX locking API calls correctly this way since Windows locking has nothing in common with UNIX locking except for the word "locking".
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