Re: gnome (gconf) saga - please read

["Timothy H. Keitt" <tklistaddr keittlab bio sunysb edu>]

On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 11:24, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> It's an idea, at least as a heuristic for whether to ask the user;
> it's less robust though. There are certainly situations where that
> would result in improper lock removal.
> 
> The config corruption you see in ~/.gnome results from exactly the
> "well that situation will never happen" kind of thinking...
> 

Agreed.

What made me think about it was the idea of NFS leasing (e.g.,
http://www.moshebar.com/article.php?sid=5), although that applies to
data caching, not locking. I wonder if it might be adaptable to file
locking.

Tim