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The problem with fcntl(2) locks is that they are not inherited by child processes. This breaks pidfile(3), where the common idiom is to open and lock the PID file before daemonizing.
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.\" Copyright (c) 2007 Dag-Erling Coïdan Smørgrav
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd June 6, 2009
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.Dt FLOPEN 3
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm flopen
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.Nd "Reliably open and lock a file"
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.Sh LIBRARY
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.Lb libutil
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.In sys/fcntl.h
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.In libutil.h
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.Ft int
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.Fn flopen "const char *path" "int flags"
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.Ft int
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.Fn flopen "const char *path" "int flags" "mode_t mode"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Fn flopen
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function opens or creates a file and acquires an exclusive lock on it.
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It is essentially equivalent with calling
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.Fn open
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with the same parameters followed by
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.Fn flock
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with an
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.Va operation
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argument of
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.Dv LOCK_EX ,
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except that
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.Fn flopen
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will attempt to detect and handle races that may occur between opening
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/ creating the file and locking it.
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Thus, it is well suited for opening lock files, PID files, spool
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files, mailboxes and other kinds of files which are used for
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synchronization between processes.
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.Pp
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If
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.Va flags
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includes
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.Dv O_NONBLOCK
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and the file is already locked,
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.Fn flopen
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will fail and set
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.Va errno
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to
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.Dv EWOULDBLOCK .
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.Pp
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As with
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.Fn open ,
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the additional
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.Va mode
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argument is required if
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.Va flags
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includes
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.Dv O_CREAT .
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.Sh RETURN VALUES
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If successful,
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.Fn flopen
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returns a valid file descriptor.
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Otherwise, it returns -1, and sets
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.Va errno
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as described in
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.Xr flock 2
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and
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.Xr open 2 .
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr errno 2 ,
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.Xr flock 2 ,
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.Xr open 2
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.Sh AUTHORS
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.An -nosplit
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The
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.Nm
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function and this manual page were written by
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.An Dag-Erling Sm\(/orgrav Aq des@FreeBSD.org .
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