Not so Ubuntu related C question

[Magnus Therning]

On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 10:30:55AM -0400, dave walker wrote:
>I have a question, and just thought someone here may have an answer for
>me.
>
>I am writing a library, with plugins in Thunderbird and Gaim (for right
>now).  The library is an API to edit an XML file.  So both, TB and
>GAIM, should not be able to issue a write command to the file at the
>same time.  My question is, am I able to use mutex in the library to
>allow only one process to write at a time, OR, will I need to use a
>file lock?

I would opt for a file lock, simply because the operations that must be
synchronised are on a file.

/M

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