Transferring locks from parent to child

[Tony Stuart]

The SYS V.3 man page for fcntl(2) says "Locks are not inherited by
a child process in a fork(2) system call." My problem is that I need
them to be. I can think of a couple of ways to transfer a lock from
the parent process to the child process for my particular application,
but all of them are a little more complicated than I'd like. Does anyone
know of a simple, generic way to transfer locks from parent to child?
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