On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 06:49:54PM +0200, Volker Lendecke wrote: > > > > The one that bites is Linux -> Linux. This is because > > the Gnome VFS has no locking primitives (not an expert > > on Gnome VFS so people with more knowledge feel free > > to contradict me). > > Just FYI: I'm just coming from a customer with exactly this > problem using cifs.ko. OpenOffice 2 is just broken when it > comes to cross-platform locking. Period.
Oh that's a shame. Doesn't it make any fcntl lock calls for exclusion ? I vaguely remember looking in the source code a while ago and thought it did so. > OpenOffice 3 does this differently with a vi-like lock file. > This is not locked, but has the cleanup problem if a client > has crashed and a different user wants to open the file. Yeah, but that's manageable at least. Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
