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

[Morten Welinder <mortenw gnome org>]

The next version of Gnumeric will verify that the time stamp has the expected
value before overwriting.

Morten


On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 7:09 PM, Yury Dubinsky <yury dubinsky gmail com> wrote:
> 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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