On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ist there a way to prevent a file being edited with mcedit by different > users at the same time?
The MC editor has support for so called advisory locking. This means that a lock is not enforced (say at the OS level) and thus anyone can modify the file at any time. This locking scheme relies on the fact that different processes trying to modify the file will notice that a lock exists and act accordingly. In the case of MC the lock is a dead symlink named in a specific way and whose target contains the owner, the hostname and the pid of the processes which locked the file. This locking scheme is recognized by Jed and Emacs - maybe others too. _______________________________________________ Mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
