[pgpool-general: 879] Re: pgpool-II 3.2.0 build fails on Solaris 10

[Tatsuo Ishii]

> I have the same problem on Solaris 10 x86, it seems to be a global problem with pgpool 3.2 on Solaris platforms, because there is no flock functions on Solaris, but only in "BSD Compatibility Library Functions" (/usr/ucblib/libucb.a)
> 
> According to the manual of flock:
> "Use of these interfaces should be restricted to only  appli-
> cations  written  on BSD platforms.  Use of these interfaces
> with any of the system libraries or in multi-thread applica-
> tions is unsupported."
> 
> Afaik the right solutions of file locking in Solaris is to use lockf(3C) function http://www.s-gms.ms.edus.si/cgi-bin/man-cgi?lockf+3C

Anybody volunteers to write a patch using lockf() for Solaris?
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