https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/tags/macos/ Recent content in Macos on Nikhil's blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-US Tue, 15 Aug 2017 08:41:12 -0700 https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2017/debugging-macos-file-locks-with-dtrace/ Tue, 15 Aug 2017 08:41:12 -0700 https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2017/debugging-macos-file-locks-with-dtrace/ A few days ago, I was stymied at work by a set of tests that had intermittent failures on OSX but not Windows. There was a process which would try to obtain an exclusive lock on a file, using the lock-on-open provided by the BSD/MacOS O_EXLOCK flag to open(2). It also used O_NONBLOCK; if the file was locked by another process, it could be skipped. The process would hold the lock and remove (unlink(2)) the file, before close(2)-ing the descriptor.