On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 20:34 +0200, Micha Lenk wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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.
Micha's got the gnucash fix, which I'll upload to Debian too. But also, there is most certainly an sshfs bug here. It has no business whatsoever returning ENOSYS in response to a link call. There are far better error codes to return. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
