Re: How to prevent Gnumeric from overwriting the same file by different gnumeric instances
Yury Dubinsky <[email protected]>
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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. >> _______________________________________________ >> gnumeric-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list > _______________________________________________ > gnumeric-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list >