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2.8 KiB
Groff
107 lines
2.8 KiB
Groff
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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 May 10, 2007
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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 HISTORY
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The
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.Fn flopen
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function first appeared in
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.Fx 6.3 .
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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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