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Issue of the Standard # S0210

Brief

Possibly incomplete list of errors in the description of flock() function

Detailed Description

‘Error’ section describes only one error for flock() – EWOULDBLOCK. It is possible that there should be another errors described, in particular there is no information about behavior of the function in the case when ‘fd’ is an incorrect descriptor (other functions have the special error for this case - EBADF).

Problem location(s) in the standard

Linux Standard Base Core Specification 3.1, Chapter 13. Base Libraries, 13.5. Interface Definitions for libc, description of function flock.

Accepted

LSB Bugzilla, 1334

Status

Fixed in LSB 3.2

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