Re: File Interlocking on NFS

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From: Karl Berry
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 1994 12:51

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    What if the FN file's directory is write protected?

Can't lock the file, then.

This does not obviate the fact that the current scheme *never* works
across machines.  At least the patch I *sometimes* (usually, in fact)
makes file locking work across machines.

I suppose the right thing would be to revert back to using a global
directory if it's available.  It hasn't been a big problem in practice
for us, so I never implemented this. We wouldn't have a global directory
in any case, and in the absence of that useful file locking is impossible
to do anyway.

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