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Date:      Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:00:11 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r184092 - head/lib/libutil
Message-ID:  <200810201800.m9KI0BQG077294@svn.freebsd.org>

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Author: des
Date: Mon Oct 20 18:00:11 2008
New Revision: 184092
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/184092

Log:
  pidfile(3) uses flopen(3) - don't make any assumptions about how the
  latter is implemented.

Modified:
  head/lib/libutil/pidfile.3

Modified: head/lib/libutil/pidfile.3
==============================================================================
--- head/lib/libutil/pidfile.3	Mon Oct 20 17:41:08 2008	(r184091)
+++ head/lib/libutil/pidfile.3	Mon Oct 20 18:00:11 2008	(r184092)
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd August 22, 2005
+.Dd October 20, 2008
 .Dt PIDFILE 3
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -51,16 +51,14 @@ The
 .Nm pidfile
 family of functions allows daemons to handle PID files.
 It uses
-.Xr flock 2
+.Xr flopen 3
 to lock a pidfile and detect already running daemons.
 .Pp
 The
 .Fn pidfile_open
 function opens (or creates) a file specified by the
 .Fa path
-argument and locks it with the
-.Xr flock 2
-system call.
+argument and locks it.
 If a file can not be locked, a PID of an already running daemon is returned in
 the
 .Fa pidptr
@@ -233,16 +231,17 @@ function may also fail and set
 .Va errno
 for any errors specified for the
 .Xr close 2 ,
-.Xr flock 2 ,
 .Xr fstat 2 ,
 .Xr write 2 ,
 and
 .Xr unlink 2
-calls.
+system calls and the
+.Xr flopen 3
+library function.
 .Sh SEE ALSO
-.Xr flock 2 ,
 .Xr open 2 ,
-.Xr daemon 3
+.Xr daemon 3 ,
+.Xr flopen 3
 .Sh AUTHORS
 .An -nosplit
 The



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