Drew, Stephen said: > Yet Starteam (version control system) is still interfering with the file > - causing unexpected errors while the application is running. Is this > because the locking in Windows is below-par in comparison with the Unix > locking? The thing is that Starteam is not even interested in the file, > only the directory (I guess it is scanning the file to check it's not > been added to version control).
First, verify that it's really StarTeam touching the process and fouling it up. You might also want to make sure that you're only using timestamps and not md5 sums to verify file integrity. Trust me, as a fellow StarTeam victim, that using md5 sums in StarTeam is not a reliable way to determine file changes (having nothing to do with md5 and everything to do with StarTeam). Second, check if this thing is running on a local or network drive. SQLite isn't recommended for network drives, and StarTeam most assuredly isn't suitable for network drives. The truth is that StarTeam probably isn't causing the problem, since it isn't interested in writing to the file. If it is causing the problem, consider one of the free source control systems. I've found CVS at least to be a lot less problematic than StarTeam. Clay -- Lazarus Notes from Lazarus Internet Development http://www.lazarusid.com/notes/ Articles, Reviews and Commentary on web development
