[OpenAFS] flock on AFS files

[Hans-Werner Paulsen]

Hello,
today I am totally confused how the flock(2) call should work on
AFS files.
Normally locking works in the following way:
1	 fd =3D open("afs-file",O_RDWR)
	 do something
2	 flock(fd,LOCK_EX)
	 do something with "afs-file"
3	 flock(fd,LOCK_UN)
	 do something
4	 close(fd)

When there are two processes (on different machines) executing that
code, the (2) flock call has to update the local copy of the afs-file,
otherwise locking is useless. And the (3) flock call has to sync the
local copy with the fileserver.
Writing a small test program I see that this synchronization isn't done.
How can I use the flock(2) call on AFS files?
Thank you for any help,

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