On Saturday, April 6, 2002, at 01:23 PM, Nathaniel Irons wrote:
> I just noticed that my mail scripts' exclusive locks don't command any
> respect when the files to which they're writing live on an HFS+
> AppleShare volume, in /Volumes/.  Should I be surprised by this?

Probably not - it doesn't work over NFS on most other Unix environments 
either.  I'm not too familiar with AppleShare, though.

> If flock doesn't work on remote volumes, is there a good packaged
> fallback, short of writing and removing dopey little files named 
> '.lock'?

That's probably what you'll have to do.

  -Ken

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