<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ANSI_X3.4-1968" standalone="no"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968" /><title>posix_lock_file</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.78.1" /><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="Linux Filesystems API" /><link rel="up" href="file_locks.html" title="File Locks" /><link rel="prev" href="file_locks.html" title="File Locks" /><link rel="next" href="API-posix-lock-file-wait.html" title="posix_lock_file_wait" /></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center"><span class="phrase">posix_lock_file</span></th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="file_locks.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">File Locks</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="API-posix-lock-file-wait.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr /></div><div class="refentry"><a id="API-posix-lock-file"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>posix_lock_file — Apply a POSIX-style lock to a file </p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="funcsynopsis"><table border="0" class="funcprototype-table" summary="Function synopsis" style="cellspacing: 0; cellpadding: 0;"><tr><td><code class="funcdef">int <strong class="fsfunc">posix_lock_file </strong>(</code></td><td>struct file * <var class="pdparam">filp</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>struct file_lock * <var class="pdparam">fl</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>struct file_lock * <var class="pdparam">conflock</var><code>)</code>;</td></tr></table><div class="funcprototype-spacer"> </div></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a id="idm139881795756480"></a><h2>Arguments</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl class="variablelist"><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>filp</code></em></span></dt><dd><p> The file to apply the lock to </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>fl</code></em></span></dt><dd><p> The lock to be applied </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>conflock</code></em></span></dt><dd><p> Place to return a copy of the conflicting lock, if found. </p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a id="idm139881795749536"></a><h2>Description</h2><p> Add a POSIX style lock to a file. We merge adjacent & overlapping locks whenever possible. POSIX locks are sorted by owner task, then by starting address </p><p> Note that if called with an FL_EXISTS argument, the caller may determine whether or not a lock was successfully freed by testing the return value for -ENOENT. </p></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr /><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="file_locks.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="file_locks.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="API-posix-lock-file-wait.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">File Locks </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> <span class="phrase">posix_lock_file_wait</span></td></tr></table></div></body></html>