On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 22:49, Speedo Goo wrote: > hi all, > > i am using linux to "mount -smbfs" a Windows NT share to read a file > there. a win32 app (not written by me) on the NT server opens the file > for read-write *once* and then *continually* changes the content. i can > view the file content changing from another Windows box on the LAN, but, > on my linux machine, every time i cat the file, it's still the old > content when i mount it. Are there any cache problems here? or, Do i > need to put some extra arguments for mount? or ... > --- obviously - one can only speculate. It would seem to me that the file is still open for writing - thus, all you will ever get is the state of the file when it was first opened for writing and it won't change until the file is closed (and subsequently re-opened I guess). Does Windows machine mounting this share and opening this file handle this differently?
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