Synchronously write file

Question

I am implementing a server in C for a course project. The server should serve more than one client simultaneously. The description of the project states that fork() should be used to serve more than one client. Each children should write something to a common file. How do I handle this synchronously? Is there any mechanism like in Java where only one thread can use a function at the same time?

Answer 1

Because you're using fork(), you are spawning new processes, not new threads. That means you can't synchronize via monitors. You can, however, synchronize via named semaphores.