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

[Yury Dubinsky <yury dubinsky 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 <mortenw gnome org>
> 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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