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From: Hans Galema
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 06:48

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Dennis Jones wrote:

> At first I thought specifying the appropriate file sharing modes would work,
> but then I realized that that would only work to block access to the file
> for other processes running on the SAME machine. 

Is that true ? Hard to believe. If you lock the file (and get the lock)
the access will to blocked by the os on the shared machine for others

> Any additional ideas would be welcome.

Isn't appending to a file with fwrite() an atomic process ?

Every client could open the file once for a whole session.
You do not have to lock. After fwrite() you could flush.
That would be all.

Hans.

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