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mention that open fd locking is non-standard
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closes the password database.}
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Linux contains a different kind of locking called \emph{Open file description
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locks} that avoids this problem (the per file descriptor locks are released
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only on the last close), however does not provide deadlock detection.
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locks} (non-standard) that avoids this problem (the per file descriptor locks
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are released only on the last close), however does not provide deadlock
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detection.
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\item The \texttt{lockf} function (SUSv3) is simpler variant of
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\texttt{fcntl}, specifies only how to lock and how many bytes from the current
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position in the file. Very often implemented as \texttt{fcntl} wrapper.

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