Re: How to prevent Gnumeric from overwriting the same file by different gnumeric instances

Morten Welinder <[email protected]> Thu, 22 Mar 2018 20:28:29 -0400

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> Is there a reason that the patch attached to that bug wasn't applied?

Yes.

And now a reasonable follow-up question would be what that reason was,
but I don't
remember the details.  It was discussed in mail or on IRC.

However, a quick look says that it can't work right under NFS -- and networked
file systems are the primary reason why one would want locking.  Specifically,
O_EXCL isn't going to be necessarily exclusive.

M.