I often access an open Gnumeric file from a script with ssconvert. I would not like exclusive locking. I also often reopen a last-saved file in another window to help straighten out some blunder I've made. I could live with a warning if it were innocuous.
Frank --------------------------------------------------- On Thu, 22 Mar 2018 20:28:29 -0400, Morten Welinder <mort...@gnome.org> wrote : > [...] > > Yes. > > And now a reasonable follow-up question would be what that reason was, > but I don't > remember the details. It was discussed in mail or on IRC. > > However, a quick look says that it can't work right under NFS -- and networked > file systems are the primary reason why one would want locking. Specifically, > O_EXCL isn't going to be necessarily exclusive. > > M. > _______________________________________________ > gnumeric-list mailing list > gnumeric-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list gnumeric-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
