File IO with select?

[Jared Lee Peterson]

I am trying to syncronize two clients that are accessing the same file.
One client spawns the other and then needs to wait until process two
writes to the file before it can then read from it.  I am trying to use
select() for this but I am not having much luck.  So I guess that my
question would be whether or not I can use select() for this or not.  If
so could someone offer some guidance ... if not could someone offer
another suggestion.  Thanks a lot

Jared Peterson