Re: file locking looks strange

From: Alex Riesen (Alexander.Riesen@synopsys.com)
Date: Mon Sep 09 2002 - 06:34:14 EST


On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 04:31:56PM +0200, Claus Rosenberger wrote:
> How i can informations about file locking for applications.
>
> if i open a document with one application on the terminalserver and try to
> open the same document in another session i can write on the second
> session. this happens for example with openoffice. how i can really lock
> the file if one application open this doc for reading and writing ?

read Documentation/locks.txt and Documentation/mandatory.txt.
You can also use advisory locking (man 2 fcntl, lockf), if it's
your own code.

-alex

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