On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 03:38:54PM +0200, Mikhail Voitenko wrote: > the idea sounds very interesting. It should be checked whether it works > well in problematic heterogeneous networks, where the old file locking > had problems. > > If this solution behaves itself consistently, I see no problem to > integrate it in framework. > > Having a byte that is never accessed in a document is problematic, but > we could use the lock files further and lock an unused byte in the lock > file.
Yes, that was my idea. > Additionally the lock file allows better notification in > case the document is locked. And in case the lock file has > the byte not locked, it can be just removed then. Exactly my idea. Very likely you have version information in the lock file, so it can be a new version that must carry the brlock to be valid. Volker
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