[geeks] Solaris losing-writers question

[Phil Stracchino]

Patrick Giagnocavo 717-201-3366 wrote:
> Does one of the writers lose (not ending with the data being recorded)?  Or does each writer write data into the file, but there are no guarantees which comes first?

What are you actually using to write the file?  Assuming your code is
written correctly, what should happen is that the first thread opens the
file in exclusive mode and starts writing, the second finds the file
locked and blocks until it's available for writing again.

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