Re: [Patch]: Create Global Privilege

["Pierre A. Humblet" <pierre at phumblet dot no-ip dot org>]

At 10:26 AM 12/2/2003 +0100, you wrote:
>On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 10:55:46PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>> Also, the utmp/wtmp functions use mutexes to insure safe access.
>> That creates two problems, particularly on servers:
>> - When users have private copies of Cygwin with different mounts,
>>   there can be several utmp/wtmp files. Having a global mutex isn't
>>   helpful.
>> - If the utmp/wtmp files are unique, a user may not be have the
>>   privilege to create a global mutex, so that no mutual protection
>>   is achieved.
>> Both problems could be solved very simply by using file locking.
>> Should I do that some day?
>
>Sure, go ahead.

Getting there, but I have questions.
1) Because I am inside cygwin, I assume I should use explicitly
   struct __flock64 and fcntl64(). 
   Or should I call fcntl_worker directly?
2) Why does struct __flock64 have a "_off_t  l_start"
   but a "_off64_t  l_len"  (in cygwin/types.h) ?
3) If I use fcntl64, shouldn't I use lseek64 as well?
   But then why does the rest of the utmp/wtmp code use lseek?

Thanks.

Pierre