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Hi,

Bas Wijnen wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 01:02:56PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
>>> I was trying to use gnucash over sshfs, to allow several machines to
>>> handle the same file.  It complained that it was unable to get a lock,
>>> and so couldn't prevent simultaneous writes.  This was no problem,
>>> because there isn't another person working on them.  For the rest,
>>> everything seemed to work fine.
>>>
>>> However, when trying to reopen the file, I found that it had not been
>>> written, but instead it was deleted.  So not only did I lose the work of
>>> the session, but it actually deleted my previous work as well.
>>
>> Are you sure this isn't a bug in sshfs?
> 
> No, I'm not sure about that.  But from gnucash's behaviour, it seems
> that sshfs doesn't support locking (which I suppose is a known missing
> feature, but I didn't check), and gnucash handles that situation very
> badly.

I've just posted a fix for this bug to the upstream bug tracker. See
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=549595 for further details.

Regards
  Micha
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