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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2019-02-25 10:41:45 +0100 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2019-02-25 10:50:46 +0100 |
| commit | e4092d5e51eea453c6dba5337f2cc21f4b06639c (patch) | |
| tree | 7d314509f0f97f329c2d3a4ba925fe2461383cd7 | |
| parent | 27ede97d14ae5d5ca4b4424c867ac2c714f46a13 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-e4092d5e51eea453c6dba5337f2cc21f4b06639c.tar.gz | |
fcntl.2: Briefly explain the meaning of the 'l_sysid' field in 'struct flock'
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/fcntl.2 | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man2/fcntl.2 b/man2/fcntl.2 index accadee938..843d508fa6 100644 --- a/man2/fcntl.2 +++ b/man2/fcntl.2 @@ -1914,7 +1914,8 @@ and Several systems have more fields in .I "struct flock" such as, for example, -.IR l_sysid . +.IR l_sysid +(to identify the machine where the lock is held). .\" e.g., Solaris 8 documents this field in fcntl(2), and Irix 6.5 .\" documents it in fcntl(5). mtk, May 2007 .\" Also, FreeBSD documents it (Apr 2014). |