File locking is a mechanism that restricts access to a computer file, or to a region of a file, by allowing only one user or process to modify or delete...

rules. Because more than one messages are stored in a single file, some form of file locking is needed to avoid the corruption that can result from two...

controller. SMB supports opportunistic locking (see below) on files in order to improve performance. Opportunistic locking support has changed with each Windows...

process/thread will request a lock held by the other. (For example, locking a row rather than the entire table, or locking a cell rather than the entire...

Note: the byte-range advisory Network Lock Manager (NLM) protocol (added to support UNIX System V file locking APIs) the remote quota-reporting (RQUOTAD)...

serialize concurrent access Lock (database), a feature used when multiple users access a database concurrently File locking, describes a mechanism that...

is unlocked. Locking can be supported by the version control system, or via informal communications between developers (aka social locking). Similar to...

computer operating systems, a file descriptor (FD, less frequently fildes) is a process-unique identifier (handle) for a file or other input/output resource...

directory structure or file metadata. For instance, file locking cannot prevent TOCTTOU race conditions on symbolic links. File locking also cannot automatically...

permissions, resource forks, named extended attributes, and advanced file locking. AFP versions 3.0 and greater rely exclusively on TCP/IP (port 548) for...