LibC: Implement flock(2) using fcntl's F_SETLK

While flock is not a posix interface, it exists on linux and all BSDs as
far as I am aware.

3 files changed, 40 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Userland/Libraries/LibC/CMakeLists.txt b/Userland/Libraries/LibC/CMakeLists.txt
index ab1288a007..3108399552 100644
--- a/Userland/Libraries/LibC/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/Userland/Libraries/LibC/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ set(LIBC_SOURCES
     strings.cpp
     stubs.cpp
     syslog.cpp
+    sys/file.cpp
     sys/mman.cpp
     sys/prctl.cpp
     sys/ptrace.cpp
diff --git a/Userland/Libraries/LibC/sys/file.cpp b/Userland/Libraries/LibC/sys/file.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..503604b9e9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Userland/Libraries/LibC/sys/file.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2021, Peter Elliott <pelliott@ualberta.ca>
+ *
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause
+ */
+
+#include <AK/Assertions.h>
+#include <fcntl.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <sys/file.h>
+
+extern "C" {
+
+int flock(int fd, int operation)
+{
+    struct flock lock {
+        short(operation & 0b11), SEEK_SET, 0, 0, 0
+    };
+    if (operation & LOCK_NB) {
+        return fcntl(fd, F_SETLK, &lock);
+    }
+
+    // FIXME: Implement F_SETLKW in fcntl.
+    VERIFY_NOT_REACHED();
+}
+}
diff --git a/Userland/Libraries/LibC/sys/file.h b/Userland/Libraries/LibC/sys/file.h
index f9ae0c1ad8..2abfb7665d 100644
--- a/Userland/Libraries/LibC/sys/file.h
+++ b/Userland/Libraries/LibC/sys/file.h
@@ -5,3 +5,16 @@
  */
 
 #pragma once
+
+#include <sys/cdefs.h>
+
+__BEGIN_DECLS
+
+#define LOCK_SH 0
+#define LOCK_EX 1
+#define LOCK_UN 2
+#define LOCK_NB (1 << 2)
+
+int flock(int fd, int operation);
+
+__END_DECLS