From 8a92f14092aa538546d319620c341ac058b833a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:29:57 +0000
Subject: 	* posix.sgml (std-notes): Change description of flock
 restrictions.

---
 winsup/cygwin/posix.sgml | 9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

(limited to 'winsup/cygwin/posix.sgml')

diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/posix.sgml b/winsup/cygwin/posix.sgml
index 5bb27d7..5e5df46 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/posix.sgml
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/posix.sgml
@@ -1457,10 +1457,11 @@ CLOCK_REALTIME and CLOCK_MONOTONIC.  <function>clock_setres</function>,
 <function>clock_settime</function>, and <function>timer_create</function>
 currently support only CLOCK_REALTIME.</para>
 
-<para>BSD file locks created via <function>flock</function> are not
-propagated to the parent process and sibling processes.  The locks are
-only valid in the creating process and subsequently started child processes
-sharing the same file descriptor.</para>
+<para>BSD file locks created via <function>flock</function> are only
+propagated to the direct parent process, not to grand parents or sibling
+processes.  The locks are only valid in the creating process, its parent,
+and subsequently started child processes sharing the same file descriptor.
+</para>
 
 <para><function>fpclassify</function>, <function>isfinite</function>,
 <function>isgreater</function>, <function>isgreaterequal</function>,
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