From a5caa6fcd9dea7091aa4749f18ee891b373797a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 21:08:19 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] reference the os module and the lock flags in the os.open()
 function. (Someone please review what I wrote for accuracy.)

---
 Doc/lib/libfcntl.tex | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Doc/lib/libfcntl.tex b/Doc/lib/libfcntl.tex
index 33a5893014..645a97ef2e 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libfcntl.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libfcntl.tex
@@ -118,3 +118,11 @@ hold an integer value; in the second example it will hold a string
 value.  The structure lay-out for the \var{lockdata} variable is
 system dependent --- therefore using the \function{flock()} call may be
 better.
+
+\begin{seealso}
+  \seemodule{os}{The \function{os.open} function supports locking flags
+                 and is available on a wider variety of platforms than 
+		 the \function{fcntl.lockf} and \function{fcntl.flock}
+		 functions, providing a more platform-independent file
+		 locking facility.}
+\end{seealso}
-- 
2.40.0