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+.\"     @(#)flock.2	8.2 (Berkeley) 12/11/93
+.\" $FreeBSD$
+.\"
+.Dd December 11, 1993
+.Dt FLOCK 2
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm flock
+.Nd "apply or remove an advisory lock on an open file"
+.Sh LIBRARY
+.Lb libc
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.In sys/file.h
+.Fd "#define	LOCK_SH		0x01		/* shared file lock */"
+.Fd "#define	LOCK_EX		0x02		/* exclusive file lock */"
+.Fd "#define	LOCK_NB		0x04		/* don't block when locking */"
+.Fd "#define	LOCK_UN		0x08		/* unlock file */"
+.Ft int
+.Fn flock "int fd" "int operation"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+.Fn Flock
+applies or removes an
+.Em advisory
+lock on the file associated with the file descriptor
+.Fa fd .
+A lock is applied by specifying an
+.Fa operation
+parameter that is one of
+.Dv LOCK_SH
+or
+.Dv LOCK_EX
+with the optional addition of
+.Dv LOCK_NB .
+To unlock
+an existing lock
+.Dv operation
+should be
+.Dv LOCK_UN .
+.Pp
+Advisory locks allow cooperating processes to perform
+consistent operations on files, but do not guarantee
+consistency (i.e., processes may still access files
+without using advisory locks possibly resulting in
+inconsistencies).
+.Pp
+The locking mechanism allows two types of locks:
+.Em shared
+locks and
+.Em exclusive
+locks.
+At any time multiple shared locks may be applied to a file,
+but at no time are multiple exclusive, or both shared and exclusive,
+locks allowed simultaneously on a file.
+.Pp
+A shared lock may be
+.Em upgraded
+to an exclusive lock, and vice versa, simply by specifying
+the appropriate lock type; this results in the previous
+lock being released and the new lock applied (possibly
+after other processes have gained and released the lock).
+.Pp
+Requesting a lock on an object that is already locked
+normally causes the caller to be blocked until the lock may be
+acquired.  If
+.Dv LOCK_NB
+is included in
+.Fa operation ,
+then this will not happen; instead the call will fail and
+the error
+.Er EWOULDBLOCK
+will be returned.
+.Sh NOTES
+Locks are on files, not file descriptors.  That is, file descriptors
+duplicated through
+.Xr dup 2
+or
+.Xr fork 2
+do not result in multiple instances of a lock, but rather multiple
+references to a single lock.  If a process holding a lock on a file
+forks and the child explicitly unlocks the file, the parent will
+lose its lock.
+.Pp
+Processes blocked awaiting a lock may be awakened by signals.
+.Sh RETURN VALUES
+.Rv -std flock
+.Sh ERRORS
+The
+.Fn flock
+call fails if:
+.Bl -tag -width Er
+.It Bq Er EWOULDBLOCK
+The file is locked and the
+.Dv LOCK_NB
+option was specified.
+.It Bq Er EBADF
+The argument
+.Fa fd
+is an invalid descriptor.
+.It Bq Er EINVAL
+The argument
+.Fa fd
+refers to an object other than a file.
+.It Bq Er EOPNOTSUPP
+The argument
+.Fa fd
+refers to an object that does not support file locking.
+.El
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr close 2 ,
+.Xr dup 2 ,
+.Xr execve 2 ,
+.Xr fork 2 ,
+.Xr open 2
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Fn flock
+function call appeared in
+.Bx 4.2 .