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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2014-04-22 10:00:07 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2014-04-23 20:40:00 +0200 |
| commit | 61a37c81ef11da9a12df91da181b943ef29cf2ba (patch) | |
| tree | ae7138f77d581b8c0a303a9f64aa84b9e01bad68 | |
| parent | 04346be5bb0fe25181a7ab771efe96bd3a2a249c (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-61a37c81ef11da9a12df91da181b943ef29cf2ba.tar.gz | |
flock.2: Employ term "open file description" in DESCRIPTION
And include reference to open(2) for an explanation of the term.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/flock.2 | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man2/flock.2 b/man2/flock.2 index 838cc7e26a..324f37d1f9 100644 --- a/man2/flock.2 +++ b/man2/flock.2 @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ .\" FIXME: Maybe document LOCK_MAND, LOCK_RW, LOCK_READ, LOCK_WRITE .\" which only have effect for SAMBA. .\" -.TH FLOCK 2 2013-02-11 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH FLOCK 2 2014-04-22 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME flock \- apply or remove an advisory lock on an open file .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -73,7 +73,8 @@ A single file may not simultaneously have both shared and exclusive locks. Locks created by .BR flock () -are associated with an open file table entry. +are associated with an open file description (see +.BR open (2)). This means that duplicate file descriptors (created by, for example, .BR fork (2) or |