On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 19:34 -0500, Brian C Young wrote: > On to the next problem: in 0.4, there was a lockfile feature added, > which I suppose is useful for those running Hobix on machines that > host multi-author blogs (?).
Not just that. There are lots of situations in which you could potentially have more than one Hobix process running at a time -- for example, if Hobix is also running as a webapp, or simply running hobix commands from two terminals at once. > I am having considerable difficulty with this in processing entries > on Windows. The library seems to rely on POSIX-oriented methods, e.g., > File#link, File::Stat#ino, File::Stat#rdev, that Windows just doesn't > support properly, or at least Windows XP Home. Yeah... Lockfile is pretty Unix-bound. > 1. I would like to propose some way of making the use of the > lockfile library configurable, perhaps in the .hobixrc. Does > anyone see a problem with this, or can you think of a more > elegant way of solving the problem? If it's not obvious, I > don't understand the library well enough to try making it > work for Windows. The best answer is probably simply to not try to do locking on Windows, until we can make it work. I'll have to think about that some. -mental
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