lockf replacement?

[Christopher Faylor]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 09:10:17PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>I found some sources where the guy uses _locking from the WIN API to
>replace lockf, I adapted this and linked the Cygwin executable against
>/usr/lib/mingw/libcrtdll.a.
>
>Is this a possible way to go?  Or does libcrtdll conflict with
>libcygwin?  At least the application seems to run basically, I have not
>tested the relevant parts though.

Are you just trying to implement lockf?

Why are you talking about linking libcrtdll.a with a cygwin executable
rather than just modifying the cygwin DLL?