On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> 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. > > Where is the dead symlink located?
In the same directory as the file being edited. > If one user opens a file with mcedit for editing and another user > does the same with mcedit should he get a message about this fact? Yes. > The mc version is 4.5.51 wiht RedHat 7.2 That version doesn't support locking. Locking support was added starting with MC 4.6.0. _______________________________________________ Mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
