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   fcntl    ( 2 )

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Примечание (Note)

The errors returned by dup2(2) are different from those returned by F_DUPFD.

File locking The original Linux fcntl() system call was not designed to handle large file offsets (in the flock structure). Consequently, an fcntl64() system call was added in Linux 2.4. The newer system call employs a different structure for file locking, flock64, and corresponding commands, F_GETLK64, F_SETLK64, and F_SETLKW64. However, these details can be ignored by applications using glibc, whose fcntl() wrapper function transparently employs the more recent system call where it is available.

Record locks Since kernel 2.0, there is no interaction between the types of lock placed by flock(2) and fcntl().

Several systems have more fields in struct flock such as, for example, l_sysid (to identify the machine where the lock is held). Clearly, l_pid alone is not going to be very useful if the process holding the lock may live on a different machine; on Linux, while present on some architectures (such as MIPS32), this field is not used.

The original Linux fcntl() system call was not designed to handle large file offsets (in the flock structure). Consequently, an fcntl64() system call was added in Linux 2.4. The newer system call employs a different structure for file locking, flock64, and corresponding commands, F_GETLK64, F_SETLK64, and F_SETLKW64. However, these details can be ignored by applications using glibc, whose fcntl() wrapper function transparently employs the more recent system call where it is available.

Record locking and NFS Before Linux 3.12, if an NFSv4 client loses contact with the server for a period of time (defined as more than 90 seconds with no communication), it might lose and regain a lock without ever being aware of the fact. (The period of time after which contact is assumed lost is known as the NFSv4 leasetime. On a Linux NFS server, this can be determined by looking at /proc/fs/nfsd/nfsv4leasetime, which expresses the period in seconds. The default value for this file is 90.) This scenario potentially risks data corruption, since another process might acquire a lock in the intervening period and perform file I/O.

Since Linux 3.12, if an NFSv4 client loses contact with the server, any I/O to the file by a process which "thinks" it holds a lock will fail until that process closes and reopens the file. A kernel parameter, nfs.recover_lost_locks, can be set to 1 to obtain the pre-3.12 behavior, whereby the client will attempt to recover lost locks when contact is reestablished with the server. Because of the attendant risk of data corruption, this parameter defaults to 0 (disabled).