Thanks Paul. That answers a question I've had rattling around in my brain ever since someone posted a DUG message about NX Server software. Which was "how do you limit the number of users accessing an application through a terminal server?"
Todd. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Heinz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 11:45 AM Subject: RE: [DUG] Licencing schemes > Todd asked: > > > Okay. So how do you do it in Unix? > > Essentially, the same way but record locking support and APIs vary across > different Unixen, different versions, and different file systems (NFS often > being an issue). > > Also, it may be either daemon-based which only supports advisory locking > where you can read and write under locks or kernel-based which also allows > mandatory locking where locks do block writes and/or reads. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_locking has a pretty good summary. > > TTFN, > Paul. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Delphi mailing list > [email protected] > http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > > > > -- > Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.5 - Release Date: 21/04/2006 > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.5.1/327 - Release Date: 28/04/2006 _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi
