David Pitcher wrote: > The claim that it works over a networked drive has made me > start to think that operating system specific locking mechanisms are totally > the wrong way to go, and that I have misunderstood the code.
OS locking mechanisms are supposed to work over a network. >[...] or should I just sit down with a pen, ignore the calls to the Windows API in > the win32 one and try and work it out from the unix implementation? The NT branch of the Win32 implementation does the same thing as the Unix one. It does not have to work around the silly Posix lock semantics so it's simpler. I'd start there. Gé
