What's up with our stdout?

[John-Mark Gurney]

Andrew Reilly wrote this message on Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 11:17 +1000:
> One interesting problem that I found yesterday was that NetBSD
> have added a "-l" option to cat, which is supposed to apply an
> exclusive advisory lock with fcntl to the the output file, and
> wait until that succeeds:
> http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?cat++NetBSD-current
> That seems like a pretty useful idea,
> because it means that you can have parallel make jobs all
> contributing to a log file or the like (with cat -l >> foo.log),
> without getting in eachothers' way.

Why not use:
lockf -k foo.log cat >> foo.log

Should do the same thing...

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