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

Yury Dubinsky <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gnumeric
Message-ID <CAAK0uirarOuZGT8gv6kpmrkho+94cM9rkeeyzUsYSL_21x57NQ@mail.gmail.com>
I believe  timestamp checking must be anyway. Just lock files cannot
be a very reliable solution. A lock file could be deleted. I am not
talking about more exotic hard links when lock files will be saved in
different directories.


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