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
