/* ======================================================================== * Copyright 1988-2006 University of Washington * * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. * You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * * ======================================================================== */ /* * Program: flock emulation via fcntl() locking * * Author: Mark Crispin * Networks and Distributed Computing * Computing & Communications * University of Washington * Administration Building, AG-44 * Seattle, WA 98195 * Internet: MRC@CAC.Washington.EDU * * Date: 10 April 2001 * Last Edited: 30 August 2006 */ /* Cygwin does not seem to have the design flaw in fcntl() locking that * most other systems do (see flocksim.c for details). If some cretin * decides to implement that design flaw, then Cygwin will have to use * flocksim. Also, we don't test NFS either. * * However, Cygwin does have the Windows misfeature (introduced in NT 4.0) * that you can not write to any segment which has a shared lock, and you * can't lock a zero-byte segment either. This screws up the shared-write * mailbox drivers (mbx, mtx, mx, and tenex). As a workaround, we'll only * lock the first byte of the file, meaning that you can't write that byte * shared. It's been suggested to lock the maximum off_t type, but that * risks having a future version of Windows (or Cygwin) deciding that this * also means "no lock". */ #undef flock /* name is used as a struct for fcntl */ /* Emulator for flock() call * Accepts: file descriptor * operation bitmask * Returns: 0 if successful, -1 if failure under BSD conditions */ int flocksim (int fd,int op) { char tmp[MAILTMPLEN]; int logged = 0; struct flock fl; /* lock one bytes at byte 0 */ fl.l_whence = SEEK_SET; fl.l_start = 0; fl.l_len = 1; fl.l_pid = getpid (); /* shouldn't be necessary */ switch (op & ~LOCK_NB) { /* translate to fcntl() operation */ case LOCK_EX: /* exclusive */ fl.l_type = F_WRLCK; break; case LOCK_SH: /* shared */ fl.l_type = F_RDLCK; break; case LOCK_UN: /* unlock */ fl.l_type = F_UNLCK; break; default: /* default */ errno = EINVAL; return -1; } while (fcntl (fd,(op & LOCK_NB) ? F_SETLK : F_SETLKW,&fl)) if (errno != EINTR) { /* Can't use switch here because these error codes may resolve to the * same value on some systems. */ if ((errno != EWOULDBLOCK) && (errno != EAGAIN) && (errno != EACCES)) { sprintf (tmp,"Unexpected file locking failure: %s",strerror (errno)); /* give the user a warning of what happened */ MM_NOTIFY (NIL,tmp,WARN); if (!logged++) syslog (LOG_ERR,"%s",tmp); if (op & LOCK_NB) return -1; sleep (5); /* slow things down for loops */ } /* return failure for non-blocking lock */ else if (op & LOCK_NB) return -1; } return 0; /* success */ }