James Finnall wrote:
I have seen several replies to this question. But none seem to address the
original issue of the creation of the file itself. It has been my long
understanding that file locking semantics are _NOT_ part of any data
application program to start with. So any file for the purpose of file
locking is totally unwarranted and undesirable.
It is the responsibility of the OS that is providing the file share service to
adequately protect the file from operations that could cause any form of data
loss or undesirable results.
My two cents worth.
James
On Thursday 06 November 2008, Dieter Treichel wrote:
We are using staroffice 8 and openoffice 2 since 2006 on about 300 pc in
my school. The users are saving their data on their personal
samba-share.
Now we want to change to OO-3 and have the problem, that no user is able
to save data in his/her home-share. Cause is the new behaviour of open
office, to create a temporary file like .lockFilename.
.Filename-files are vorbidden (veto file statement in the smb.conf ) for
this share.
Is there any possibility to change the standard name for the temporary
files (they should not begin with a dot) ?
Is it possibe to change the path for the temporary files without
changing the path to the working directory ?
There are two issues here.
The OS should be doing locking controls but that can be problematic when
there are applications that allow concurrent editting. If the OS does
all locking then the applications may not work.
Application locking allows finer control of file access. If the file is
opened read-only then there is no need for a lock file.
Now is there an option that can be set to enable/disable this feature.
Yes I call it a feature when using shared document folders to protect
the documents.
I thought I read about a setting for locking files but I could be
confused with a different application.
--
Robin Laing
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