I believe timestamp checking must be anyway. Just lock files cannot be a very reliable solution. A lock file could be deleted. I am not talking about more exotic hard links when lock files will be saved in different directories.
> --------------------------------------------------- > 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 > _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list gnumeric-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
