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-rw-r--r--lib/libutil/flopen.324
-rw-r--r--lib/libutil/flopen.c13
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 23 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libutil/flopen.3 b/lib/libutil/flopen.3
index fe54b76..26d1c04 100644
--- a/lib/libutil/flopen.3
+++ b/lib/libutil/flopen.3
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd May 10, 2007
+.Dd June 6, 2009
.Dt FLOPEN 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -46,13 +46,12 @@ The
function opens or creates a file and acquires an exclusive lock on it.
It is essentially equivalent with calling
.Fn open
-with the same parameters followed by an
-.Fn fcntl
-.Dv F_SETLK
-or
-.Dv F_SETLKW
-operation with lock type
-.Dv F_WRLCK ,
+with the same parameters followed by
+.Fn flock
+with an
+.Va operation
+argument of
+.Dv LOCK_EX ,
except that
.Fn flopen
will attempt to detect and handle races that may occur between opening
@@ -87,18 +86,13 @@ returns a valid file descriptor.
Otherwise, it returns -1, and sets
.Va errno
as described in
-.Xr fcntl 2
+.Xr flock 2
and
.Xr open 2 .
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr errno 2 ,
-.Xr fcntl 2 ,
+.Xr flock 2 ,
.Xr open 2
-.Sh HISTORY
-The
-.Fn flopen
-function first appeared in
-.Fx 6.3 .
.Sh AUTHORS
.An -nosplit
The
diff --git a/lib/libutil/flopen.c b/lib/libutil/flopen.c
index ae98daf..754c9c0 100644
--- a/lib/libutil/flopen.c
+++ b/lib/libutil/flopen.c
@@ -28,12 +28,11 @@
#include <sys/cdefs.h>
__FBSDID("$FreeBSD$");
+#include <sys/file.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <errno.h>
-#include <fcntl.h>
#include <stdarg.h>
-#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <libutil.h>
@@ -42,7 +41,6 @@ int
flopen(const char *path, int flags, ...)
{
int fd, operation, serrno, trunc;
- struct flock lock;
struct stat sb, fsb;
mode_t mode;
@@ -59,10 +57,9 @@ flopen(const char *path, int flags, ...)
va_end(ap);
}
- memset(&lock, 0, sizeof lock);
- lock.l_type = ((flags & O_ACCMODE) == O_RDONLY) ? F_RDLCK : F_WRLCK;
- lock.l_whence = SEEK_SET;
- operation = (flags & O_NONBLOCK) ? F_SETLK : F_SETLKW;
+ operation = LOCK_EX;
+ if (flags & O_NONBLOCK)
+ operation |= LOCK_NB;
trunc = (flags & O_TRUNC);
flags &= ~O_TRUNC;
@@ -71,7 +68,7 @@ flopen(const char *path, int flags, ...)
if ((fd = open(path, flags, mode)) == -1)
/* non-existent or no access */
return (-1);
- if (fcntl(fd, operation, &lock) == -1) {
+ if (flock(fd, operation) == -1) {
/* unsupported or interrupted */
serrno = errno;
(void)close(fd);
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