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Re: lockf replacement?
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:25:39 -0400
- Subject: Re: lockf replacement?
- References: <417EA119.3070007@familiehaase.de>
- Reply-to: Talk Amongst Yourselves <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 09:10:17PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>I found some sources where the guy uses _locking from the WIN API to
>replace lockf, I adapted this and linked the Cygwin executable against
>/usr/lib/mingw/libcrtdll.a.
>
>Is this a possible way to go? Or does libcrtdll conflict with
>libcygwin? At least the application seems to run basically, I have not
>tested the relevant parts though.
Are you just trying to implement lockf?
Why are you talking about linking libcrtdll.a with a cygwin executable
rather than just modifying the cygwin DLL?