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+/* ========================================================================
+ * Copyright 1988-2006 University of Washington
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ *
+ * ========================================================================
+ */
+
+/*
+ * Program: Exclusive create of a file, NFS kludge version
+ *
+ * Author: Mark Crispin
+ * Networks and Distributed Computing
+ * Computing & Communications
+ * University of Washington
+ * Administration Building, AG-44
+ * Seattle, WA 98195
+ * Internet: MRC@CAC.Washington.EDU
+ *
+ * Date: 17 December 1999
+ * Last Edited: 30 August 2006
+ */
+
+
+/* SUN-OS had an NFS, As kludgy as an albatross;
+ * And everywhere that it was installed, It was a total loss.
+ * -- MRC 9/25/91
+ */
+\f
+/* Exclusive create of a file
+ * Accepts: file name
+ * Return: T if success, NIL if failed, -1 if retry
+ */
+
+long crexcl (char *name)
+{
+ long ret = -1;
+ int i;
+ char hitch[MAILTMPLEN];
+ struct stat sb;
+ int mask = umask (0);
+ /* build hitching post file name */
+ sprintf (hitch,"%s.%lu.%d.",name,(unsigned long) time (0),getpid ());
+ i = strlen (hitch); /* append local host name */
+ gethostname (hitch + i,(MAILTMPLEN - i) - 1);
+ /* try to get hitching-post file */
+ if ((i = open (hitch,O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL,(int) shlock_mode)) >= 0) {
+ close (i); /* close the hitching-post */
+ /* Note: link() may return an error even if it actually succeeded. So we
+ * always check for success via the link count, and ignore the error if
+ * the link count is right.
+ */
+ /* tie hitching-post to lock */
+ i = link (hitch,name) ? errno : 0;
+ /* success if link count now 2 */
+ if (!stat (hitch,&sb) && (sb.st_nlink == 2)) ret = LONGT;
+ else if (i == EPERM) { /* links not allowed? */
+ /* Probably a FAT filesystem on Linux. It can't be NFS, so try creating
+ * the lock file directly.
+ */
+ if ((i = open (name,O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL,(int) shlock_mode)) >= 0){
+ close (i); /* close the file */
+ ret = LONGT; /* success */
+ }
+ /* fail unless error is EEXIST */
+ else if (errno != EEXIST) ret = NIL;
+ }
+ unlink (hitch); /* flush hitching post */
+ }
+ /* fail unless error is EEXIST */
+ else if (errno != EEXIST) ret = NIL;
+ umask (mask); /* restore previous mask */
+ return ret;
+}