- Overview
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Table of Contents
- Special Member Functions: Constructors, Destructors, and the Assignment Operator
- Operator Overloading
- Memory Management
- Templates
- Namespaces
- Time and Date Library
- Streams
- Object-Oriented Programming and Design Principles
- The Standard Template Library (STL) and Generic Programming
- Exception Handling
- Runtime Type Information (RTTI)
- Signal Processing
- Creating Persistent Objects
- Bit Fields
- New Cast Operators
- Environment Variables
- Variadic Functions
- Pointers to Functions
- Function Objects
- Pointers to Members
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Lock Files
- Online Resources
- Design Patterns
- Dynamic Linking
- Tips and Techniques
- Five Things You Need to Know About C++11 Unions
- A Tour of C99
- A Tour of C1X
- C++0X: The New Face of Standard C++
- C++0x Concurrency
- The Reflecting Circle
- We Have Mail
- The Soapbox
- Numeric Types and Arithmetic
- Careers
- Locales and Internationalization
Online Resources
Last updated Jan 1, 2003.
The manual page of the POSIX lockf() function explains how to use this function to lock portions of a file. Notice that this function provides tighter control and a higher level of safety than our file locking mechanism. On the other hand, its interface is more complex and sadly, it's limited to POSIX systems exclusively.
