Am 26.07.2011 19:08, schrieb John Drescher: > On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Malte Forkel <malte.for...@berlin.de> wrote: >> Am 26.07.2011 18:42, schrieb Chris Weiss: >>> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 3:06 AM, Malte Forkel <malte.for...@berlin.de> >>> wrote: >>>> Currently, I'm not even sure Samba preserves the kind of state >>>> information required to detect the usage scenario I'm interested in. Is >>>> there any concept of an "open file" in Windows/Samba, after all? May be >>>> it depends on the application used to open the file? >>> >>> yes, it depends on the application. If the app closes the file and >>> leaves the share, samba honors that. if the app keeps the file handle >>> open, samba does too. >> >> So an application (like SciTE) might open a file, read and display its >> contents, and close the file while continuing to display it. And in >> contrast, a different application might not close the file while it is >> displaying its contents? > > Exactly. > > John
Well, thanks to all of you for your help. In summary then, it looks to me like I won't be able to reliably detect if there is any client out there who would be disappointed if the server shuts down. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba